The start of a new year… 2010… I want to share with you some words that – believe it or not – come from an advert (I can’t even remember which advert or what product… I’d simply clipped the words, adding them to my collection of ‘great things’…) [My apologies to the author; should anyone be able to identify him or her, I will of course give full attribution - I felt it worth sharing].
My chances of making the Winter Olympic’s
Bobsled Team diminish year by year.
My dream of being an astronaut was
abandoned long ago.
I will never be a test driver for Ferrari
or fly a jet plane.
I will never run out of a burning building
with a crying baby in my arms.
I will never perform emergency surgery
whilst on an airline flight to Buenos Aires.
But I will leave the world a better place than when I arrived.
I will last longer than me.
I will make my mark.
However you choose to make your mark – in your thinking, your approach to animal welfare, your riding, how you conserve the earth’s resources, your friendships, your work, your contribution to sport or art, or simply living as the person you want to be, I wish you well in 2010.
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Lovely! Thank you.
Thanks for sharing…each time we strive to make the right moral and ethical decision, no matter if it is difficult or perhaps unpopular, then I think we do make our mark and we do leave our world a little better…and that is an accomplishment!
Andrea, I think you have achieved your ‘mark’ with Lessons in Lightness and Riding with Chi, and I hope there will be many more. I must go over to Mousehole Farm to check out the forum. : )