How do you live YOUR Dash?

If there are any silver linings in dealing with cancer in your life, one of them might be that it serves as kind of a “2 minute warning” (to use a term from football). In other words you get fair warning from the “Head Official” that time might be running out on your game and you might want to use the rest of your time wisely. This poem, that I got from my sister, is helping me use my 2 minute warning to look at my “dash” a little more closely. I hope you enjoy it and I also hope it makes you think about YOUR dash because even if it is not time for your 2 minute warning, it’s not too early to start thinking about it.

Peace and Love,

John

 

 

How Do You Live Your Dash?

 

I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend

He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning to the end.

He noted that first came her date of birth and spoke the following date with

tears, (1934-1998)

but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

 

 

 

For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth...

and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we won; the cars...the house...the cash,

what matters is how we lived and loved and how we spent our dash.

 

So think about this long and hard.. are there things you'd like to change?

For you never know how much time is left, or waht can still be rearranged.

 

 

If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real,

and always try to understand the way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more

and love the people in our lives like we've never done before.

 

If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile,

Remembering that this special dash might only last a while.

So, when your eulogy's being read with your life's actions to rehash,

would you be proud of the things they said about you and how you spent your

dash?