| Steven A. LaChance |
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I find it amazing how fast the years have seemed to pass me by. Ten,
twenty, thirty, all gone in the blink of an eye. I remember when I was
younger my Grandmother telling me to hold onto the years if I could
because they were going to go faster than I could ever imagine. Her
wisdom seemingly escaping me for that moment and now me wishing I
had some of those years back.
It is not that I have not lived a full life up until this point. My life has been
one adventure and surprise after another. I am always amazed that just
when I think there is nothing more to this life I could learn or
experience something will come along and change my mind
completely. Even the hard times I have found the beauty of what was
meant to be learned and understood from them. It is during those
rough times when your character is built, the foundation which
everything else rests precariously upon. I have done more than my
share of character building.
I guess you could call me middle age even though I still at times feel
very much eighteen in a softer older body. The whole age thing is
funny to me because I have never quite felt the age that I am and I
always seem to miss the ages that have passed me by. At this point in
my life it is very hard not to live in the past and it is getting harder to live
in the future. Too much water has rushed under this bridge to let it all
go and move on down the river. I miss the people who I have lost and
are no longer here with me on this journey. Grief is something you get
use to and not something you get over. Hard to close the door on the
past when you would be closing the door on those you can only still
see are in your memories. Your memories are your personal record of
the life you lived.
Regret is a dangerous thing and something you do not want to haunt
you in the end. We should fear regret more than we fear anything else.
It can kill souls and drive a person insane. Try to live each day without
regret which is not easy because it means giving up on complacency.
Make your mark on this world as many times as you possibly can. It is
nothing to do with monetary gain or possessions. It has everything to
do with your legacy. What did you leave this world after you were
gone? The most valuable treasures are the ones you leave for others
to remember you by in the end. The gifts you leave to this world. Your
contributions to whirling craziness of this planet and the ever turning
dance of life and death.
My best work is yet to come. I think have some important things still to
contribute. I want to incorporate some of the things I have learned from
the past into the work I do into the future with minimal regret to lay
down a legacy which will be remembered and help document the
moments that I shared with each of you here. Yes, I think my most
important work is still yet to come
twenty, thirty, all gone in the blink of an eye. I remember when I was
younger my Grandmother telling me to hold onto the years if I could
because they were going to go faster than I could ever imagine. Her
wisdom seemingly escaping me for that moment and now me wishing I
had some of those years back.
It is not that I have not lived a full life up until this point. My life has been
one adventure and surprise after another. I am always amazed that just
when I think there is nothing more to this life I could learn or
experience something will come along and change my mind
completely. Even the hard times I have found the beauty of what was
meant to be learned and understood from them. It is during those
rough times when your character is built, the foundation which
everything else rests precariously upon. I have done more than my
share of character building.
I guess you could call me middle age even though I still at times feel
very much eighteen in a softer older body. The whole age thing is
funny to me because I have never quite felt the age that I am and I
always seem to miss the ages that have passed me by. At this point in
my life it is very hard not to live in the past and it is getting harder to live
in the future. Too much water has rushed under this bridge to let it all
go and move on down the river. I miss the people who I have lost and
are no longer here with me on this journey. Grief is something you get
use to and not something you get over. Hard to close the door on the
past when you would be closing the door on those you can only still
see are in your memories. Your memories are your personal record of
the life you lived.
Regret is a dangerous thing and something you do not want to haunt
you in the end. We should fear regret more than we fear anything else.
It can kill souls and drive a person insane. Try to live each day without
regret which is not easy because it means giving up on complacency.
Make your mark on this world as many times as you possibly can. It is
nothing to do with monetary gain or possessions. It has everything to
do with your legacy. What did you leave this world after you were
gone? The most valuable treasures are the ones you leave for others
to remember you by in the end. The gifts you leave to this world. Your
contributions to whirling craziness of this planet and the ever turning
dance of life and death.
My best work is yet to come. I think have some important things still to
contribute. I want to incorporate some of the things I have learned from
the past into the work I do into the future with minimal regret to lay
down a legacy which will be remembered and help document the
moments that I shared with each of you here. Yes, I think my most
important work is still yet to come
