“You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?”
~ Richard Bach in Messiah’s Handbook ~
I love this question by Richard Bach, as it helps me put my life in perspective as me being an active participant everything I’ve done and everything that has happened to me to bring me up this time of “right now.” I wish I could answer the question with a resounding “Yes,” but I find myself reverting to a weak “Maybe.”
In evaluating the “right now,” I also wonder, “What if instead….?” but the past is the past, so perhaps a better, more useful question might be: “What next?” Sure, I can acknowledge the past, but I can only affect the “now” and going forward.
When I turned 47, it was the first time I thought, “Wow, I’m almost 50.” Before that, I was always “in my 40’s.” Fifty seems old, a halfway point, but I still have a chance to get to a resounding “Yes” in answering Bach’s question of “Was it worth it?” I do want to look back at my life and say, “Yes, it was worth it.”
Kindly,
David