I have a busy life. That will just never change, nor even after I die. In the mist of many events and places, I got the chance to sit with someone with a life and place different to mine, but with a likely heart. We got to meet after 2 years and thousands of miles and faces. I shared:
"Last year I was ready to quit interpreting. I made the decision. Then God took me to the platform and I could not say no. I realized that I could not retire without leaving a legacy. Reproduction is a step before death comes in the cycle of life. You cannot die to something unless you have multiplied yourself first, otherwise you cannot say you are done with what you started. So, applying such truth, I started training interpreters."
We kept talking, and my dear friend brought back the words I had mentioned: "But you have left a legacy. You haven't been able to see the lives you have touched and the fruit of your work. You have touched so many lives and you don't knot it". (tears, tears of mine) I am not worthy of recognition, but these words rewarded me as if a million stars were laid at my feet.
Do I need to know though? Do I have to see the fruit of my work in order to feel satisfied? If what I am doing is true, honest and worthy of my giving up my life for it (time, money, talent and everything "my life" means at the moment), I shouldn't need to see the fruit of what I do to realize I did right. That is how you know you are doing it right. When you cannot see and you don't need to see to do the right thing. That is when you can say, I am ready to give up my life. Because I have lived in a satisfactory way. That's why I can say: I am ready to die.
That is what this is about. Sharing how sometimes life can be lived as if we are trying to die. When life is not what it seems, and its best value is found in the knowledge of eternity as reachable property...and the suffering knowing there is someone by my side who does not owns it yet.
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