Recently there was a tragedy in my home community a special
person passed away at the young age of 44 years old.
He left a Large family of children most not married yet. This
is after almost a year of suffering with cancer.
I did not know Shia on a close personal basis but I knew him
well as a member of the community.
Shia was known to everyone with his kind
words and sense of humor and especially with the talent of making people laugh;
he had the ability to make people smile, all in a very dignified way.
Our community truly lost a treasure that will be felt by all
continuously in the years to come.
The next morning after his passing I woke up in the morning
with the scent of sadness still in the air.
Thinking to myself,
I’m sure the world has come to a stop, I’m sure the community, has put
everything on hold, I’m sure everything has come to an end.
However, what a
surprise I had, when walking in to the synagogue and everything looked normal
like.
People who knew Shia closely were smiling and even
laughing, some studying all like a normal day.
It was very disappointing to me, murmuring to myself and
thinking how unfair this is, with my head bent I headed for my place while
murmuring to myself and thinking how cannot this tragedy make an effect on
everyone.
How can people just continue with life, as if business as
usual?
This thought process enlightened me again on the
phenomenal realization that all of us are just guests on this world.
We are all only here for a certain period of time, some
longer than others.
One thing we all share in common, we are for a purpose to
achieve something of importance.
It is if it is in the DNA of this whole universe to keep on
moving forward to continue to grow.
However, we humans have on slight factor that differentiates
us from all the other life forms in this world.
All forms of life, have that inner drive to grow and survive no
difference of the circumstances or environment they might find themselves.
With the exception of us humans, we have the choice to keep
on growing and developing our lives to be better and nicer people or we can
decide we would like to keep on doing things that are to the detriment of our
lives or society.
So how important it is to find meaning in one’s life.
We all have something or somewhere we are
making a difference. However, we tend to
trudge along in life not putting a thought behind the actions we do and the
impact we have, to acknowledge the importance of it.
As an example, a woman raising her little children. This is
one hectic and life consuming task.
On a side note before I continue let me share with you a
humorous story I heard
A husband comes home one evening from work and opens the door of his apartment
and yells,
Hi Honey I’m home!! He gets no response he enters and lo behold his
heart starts pounding, the house is in complete chaos. Chairs are overturned;
food and toys all over the floor, the sink full of dirty pots and dishes.
He yells again frantically, Honey are you home? He hears his wife talking laughingly on the
phone and she answers back, YES honey I am here in the bedroom.
He continues to the bedroom while stepping over dirty
laundry and what not.
He enters the room and sees his wife lying on the bed giving
him a beautiful smile and a wave while continuing to chat on the phone.
He sits down, patiently waits for her to hang up the phone,
and then says to her WHATS GOING ON DID SOMETHING TERRIBLE HAPPEN HERE
She smiles and answers everything is wonderful but you always ask me what I do the whole day,
how I keep myself busy, WELL today I JUST DIDN’T DO WHAT I DO EVERY DAY!!!!
On a serious note, to what we were discussing how we tend to
underestimate our actions and the impact we have on others and not valuing them
for their true reality. It can even be,
your complete existence is due to the habits you do on a daily basis.
It is imperative to transform your day in to a meaningful
one.
Put some deeper thoughts and feelings behind your daily
activities and understand that you were not born to this world by your choice
and like it or not, “you are on a mission to make a difference”
The following is a good idea how to exercise some
deeper thought to what you do every day is to write a daily journal and notate
at least one or two things that can be considered a win or accomplishment.
You will be surprised that some days you will be scratching
your head thinking what can you write down as a win. This is great, since it
will cause you to rethink and examine your daily actions to find more meaning and significance
to it.
