Have you ever thought about this?

In 100 years, like in 2123, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.

Strangers will live in our homes that we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today.

All our possessions will be unknown
and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.

Our descendants will hardly know
who we were, nor will they remember us.

How many of us know our grandfather’s father?

After we die, we will be
remembered for a few more years,
Then we are just a portrait on
someone’s bookshelf,

And a few years later, our history,
photos and deeds disappear
in history’s oblivion.

We won’t even be memories.

If we paused to analyze these thoughts, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all was.

If we could always be conscious of this, perhaps our approaches and our thoughts would change. We would be different people.

I’d change all this to live and enjoy
the walks I’ve never taken, the hugs
I didn’t give, the kisses for the children, animals and loved ones,
the jokes I didn’t have time for.

These would certainly be the most
beautiful moments to remember.

~Unknown