Multiple friends of mine have lost loved ones recently. I love those people and I hope they have tons of comfort and support through this journey.

While I sat reflecting on the memorial service I attended most recently, I thought… I think we’re missing the point. Think about this…

Every day we decide and we act. We put energy into the world and that energy interacts with others. We leave an imprint on them. But while we live, that imprint stays just as it is - like a recession. Then, upon our death, the imprint starts to glow - like a beacon.

During the memorial service people spoke about their experience with the person who passed. They spoke about what they loved most; even things that annoyed them most will be things their surviving loved ones will miss. It’s almost as if the imprint that was left on us glows like a beacon signaling, “hey, I’m still here, just now I’m even more alive in you than I was before.”

The words that keep coming to my mind are, “death is the birth of legacy.”

And if I think about death that way, it makes me love living that much more.