Sometimes you read something that says what you are thinking more perfectly than you could say it yourself\u00a0 – that’s how I felt when I read this poem by Michael Josephson, whom I had never heard of until someone showed me this poem , but I\u00a0 like the message of his poem so much I’m going to have to learn more about the person that wrote it because they inspired me today with their words.<\/p>\n
What Will Matter (by Michael Joseph)<\/span><\/p>\n R<\/b><\/span>eady or not, some day it will all come to an end. S<\/b><\/span>o what will matter? What will matter is not what you bought W<\/b><\/span>hat will matter is not what you learned W<\/b><\/span>hat will matter is not your competence L<\/b><\/span>iving a life that matters doesn’t happen by accident. Perfectly said! Thank you to the author for writing such an inspiring poem!\u00a0 Have a great day everyone!<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes you read something that says what you are thinking more perfectly than you could say it yourself\u00a0 – that’s how I felt when I read this poem by Michael Josephson, whom I had never heard of until someone showed me this poem , but I\u00a0 like the message of his poem so much I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11071,155,2837,163,1620,16543,41,67,83,508,1679,1356,76,65,8256,55,231,1574,16544,11061,629,34,16541,291,38,64,11052,24,53,143,2167,16542,112,145,505,16539,938,507,16540,11054,2496],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ambitions","tag-character","tag-compassion","tag-courage","tag-death","tag-emulate-your-example","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-experience","tag-fame","tag-frustration","tag-gender","tag-goals","tag-gratitude","tag-grudges","tag-happiness","tag-hope","tag-hopes","tag-how-will-you-be-remembered","tag-how-will-you-measure-your-life","tag-inspiration","tag-integrity","tag-irrelevance","tag-jealousy","tag-leadership","tag-life","tag-losses","tag-memories","tag-motivation","tag-poem","tag-race","tag-resentments","tag-self-improvement","tag-service","tag-significance","tag-the-life-we-live","tag-value","tag-wealth","tag-what-we-do-with-our-lives","tag-what-will-matter","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThere will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
\nAll the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten
\nwill pass to someone else.
\nYour wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
\nIt will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
\nYour grudges, resentments, frustrations
\nand jealousies will finally disappear.
\nSo too, your hopes, ambitions, plans and to-do lists will expire.
\nThe wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
\nIt won’t matter where you came from
\nor what side of the tracks you lived on at the end.
\nIt won’t matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.
\nEven your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHow will the value of your days be measured?<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbut what you built, not what you got but what you gave.
\nWhat will matter is not your success
\nbut your significance.<\/p>\n
\nbut what you taught.
\nWhat will matter is every act of integrity,
\ncompassion, courage, or sacrifice
\nthat enriched, empowered or encouraged others
\nto emulate your example.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbut your character.
\nWhat will matter is not how many people you knew,
\nbut how many will feel a lasting loss when you’re gone.
\nWhat will matter is not your memories
\nbut the memories that live in those who loved you.
\nWhat will matter is how long you will be remembered,
\nby whom and for what.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIt’s not a matter of circumstance but of choice.
\nChoose to live a life that matters.<\/span><\/p>\n