Sub-Topic: YOU OWN UNDERVALUED CURRENCY.
It is interesting. I recently watched the report of a gentleman, who served as ‘Chaplain' for a cancer treatment ward of a major Los Angeles hospital. He said that he provided spiritual counsel too many people from many different faith traditions and from every economic strata…filthy rich to filthy poor. After further watching, I found it interesting enough to sit down and pick some point. The chaplain looked out of the window toward the Hollywood hills and referred to the disease of cancer as ‘the great common denominator'… bringing people, those who lived at the top of hill and those who lived at the bottom of it, together on one accord. I thought that was an interesting observation and listened on. The chaplain began unbosoming a sermon citing that he had made a profoundly great discovery about human beings. Being a perpetual student of life, I of course had to pay attention. So, I did. The chaplain then slowly took a deep breath, relaxed his eyes, steadied and said, we are all the same at death's doorway.' Okay, admittedly, I didn't immediately think that was ‘great discovery'. However, there was something in the man's eye that made me listen deeper to what he was trying to say. The chaplain continued, not one of these people that I have counseled on their potential death beds have ever once expressed to me that they wished they had spent time making more money or that they worked longer hours or that they had spent more time in the office. Not one. Not one. Yet in American life, hat is all that we do. We waste our life's time. And, the richer they are, the more filled with regret their face is.' He said no more and just left it at that. All my focus with crystal clarity was on the value and economics of Life-Time.
It seems to me that at the beginning of life we are all (the poor or the rich) given something similar to a trust-fund inheritance. Not an inheritance of money but something of greater value; an inheritance of time. And this life ‘time' is like an account that we withdraw from until our time is done. But, it is how we manage and invest this account of time that determines the quality of each segment of our lives. And my questions to us is…are we sure that we are managing this account wisely or just simply spending this time haphazardly in pursuit of things that have no real value to us in the end? I am a businessperson like many. However, it is beneficial to us to remember that in our valiant quest for success and the acquisition of outer wealth, we supposedly do this only to increase the quality of our lives and the lives of our families. We say often that we want financial freedom that we may spend more time with family members. But guess what? You are financially free to do that ‘now'. Why? It is because it costs you no money. It only costs us a little of the undervalued currency that we spend most of our lives improperly investing, until it totally runs out, our ‘time'. And today, as I reflect upon the many millionaires that the chaplain said, he watched die alone and self-alienated from their families, I wonder if they felt the ‘means' justified ‘the end' of their lives. I wonder, if they felt rich as their money purported them to be. I earnestly remind us…to spend the currency of your life's time wisely. The outer-wealth cannot be taken with you. But the ‘Inner Wealth' will be the net-worth of your soul itself.
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