Welcome back! It has been 4 months since we had our last physical meeting.
You are sitting here on your chair, looking at me and
listening to what I am saying. The chair is warm and comfortable. Take a deep
breath. As you exhale, allow your head to relax. Your face muscle relaxed.
Great job. Take a deep breath. As you exhale, feel your shoulders and your
chest relaxed. Excellent, well done. Take a deep breath. As you exhale, feel
your abdomen, your legs your whole lower body relax. Wonderful, excellent. With
each breath you take, you become more relax. And the sound of music allows you
to relax more deeply. It is such a wonderful Tuesday night to get together,
let’s go to your future. A future of your legacy.
I want you to visualize this. You receive an invitation to a
party. A party to celebrate you. You happily accepted the invitation, and you
wear your best clothes to this party.
I want you to visualize yourself walking to a little house.
It is like a little community center where you have your parties. As you are
walking into this room, feel the ground underneath your feet, feel yourself
taking steps. You open the wooden door, and instantly smell the room perfumed
by soothing scent of jasmine, lilies, roses. And you hear your favourite music.
Nice, soft and peaceful music. You are walking down a corridor. There are
chairs on each side, people are sitting on each side of you. There’s this look
on their face. A look of reflection, a look of memory, a look of joy, a look of
sorrow, all blended on each person’s face. They are your family, friends,
colleagues and people from your community. You wondered why are they here? You
walk up to the stage and you notice there are three steps. You walk up each
step. There is a white case. You touch it. It is a white casket. You get closer
and you look inside. It is someone whom you know the best for life. Someone who
has been together with you the whole life. That someone, in that casket, is
you.
5 years from today, this is your funeral. There are four
people to speak. A friend, a family member, a colleague and someone from
your community.
Question to you: What will they say about you? How were you
in people’s time of need? How did you love? How did you forgive? How did you
play full out? How did you get back up when you fell down? How did you hold us
in a dark moment? These four people is going to speak about how you
inspired them. What will they say you inspired them to do? How will they say
their lives will never be the same because you crossed their path?
This will be your legacy.
When you are already gone, all we have is your
memory. What life will you live to write the memory? What legacy you want
to inscribe in others’ life? What will you write as your contribution? Everyone
of us here knows our birthday, but we can never know our transition date. There
is a dash between our birthday and transition day. We have a job. That’s make
that dash dance, make that dash dance. Dance with friends, dance with helping
hands, dance with successes, dance for being safe place for someone. Dance with
hope. Dance with love, dance with faith.
As you are sitting here on your chair, looking at me and
listening to what I am saying, I would like to invite you to ponder about your
legacy. What will be your legacy be?
It is said, life is just like a book.
Let us color our life book with up and downs, victories and
defeats, sunshine and rain.
Let us keep our readers yearn for more in life as we speak
through our book.
Let us inspire them to do great things as they read our life
book.
Let us persevere, keep our faith and finish our race.
Let us begin with the end in our mind.
Thank you.
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