“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree’s way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.”
- May Sarton
Thanks to “catmegg” for the interesting comment this AM. Here’s an excerpt:
“If I don’t ’seize the day’ each and every day, simply moved by my very human state, I will just be waiting for a life that may never come, and remain frustrated with the only one that I really have!”
This immediately reminded me of one of my favorite sayings from May Sarton:
One must think like a hero, to behave like a merely decent human being.
There is our challenge, every single day. We cannot wait for our life to arrive. We will wait forever. We must seize the day, or at least the moment to make our life what we desire it to be! To quote Thoreau:
“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.
