This essay, which I have slightly edited, was found in my mother's papers.
Here are some hard questions:
How much time did we waste in the year that has now so far passed by?
Did we fill our days with life, or were they dull and empty?
Was there love inside our home, or was the affectionate word left unsaid?
Was there a real companionship with our children, or was there a living together and a growing apart?
Were we a help to our mates, or did we take them for granted?
How was it with our friends: were we there when they needed us?
Did we perform the kind deed or did we postpone it?
The unnecessary jibe: did we say it or hold it back?
Did we deceive others? Did we deceive ourselves?
Were we sensitive to the rights and feelings of those who worked with us?
Did we acquire only possessions, or did we acquire new insights as well?
Did we fear what the crowd would say, and keep quiet when we should have spoken out?
Did we mind only our own business, or did we feel the heartbreak of others?
Did we live right? And if not, then have we learned and will we change?
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Brian, these are excellent questions and good reminders for ourselves. Your Mother sounds like an amazing person; very introspective and always striving to be the best she could be.
Thanks for sharing these, I bookmarked them and will read them again tomorrow....tonight I am just too tired to give deeper thought to their real implications in relation to my own day to day life.
Jo
Brian, I forgot to mention that these two posts of yours that reference poems you found in your Mother's papers
would be very welcome at the Inspiration group ( a group I founded a few months back ....for inspirational posts like this one ). I hope you will consider joining and posting them there.
thanks
Jo