One of my favorite movies is Titanic. I watched it again the other night for the 100th time I think. What occurred to me when Jack said to Rose in the note he gave her after dinner… “make it count”…meet me at the clock. What doest that mean to me I thought…”to make it count”. So far in life, what have I done to make it count? When I look back upon my life what will I see?
I have made mistakes along life’s journey but this is how I have learned - many mistakes I learned the hard way. Those are the ones not easily forgotten. But, what about the small things in life? Don’t they count? Didn’t it count when I spent extra time with Mrs. Jones when I worked at the nursing home? I know she smiled and said “thank you” to me. I know it mattered to her. But that will be another post at a later date I think.
All my life I have thought “if I could just do something to make a difference”, something to be remembered by. But, you know what, all this time I spent wishing and searching, I was missing out on life - the present.
Not all of us will be remembered like Martin Luther King or JFK. In another 50 years they also will be just another name in a history book as all who lived and loved in their time will be gone.
So I say to myself “how can I make it count”? Today I say live my life in the present. Smile at a stranger, you never know it may just make their day. Give someone you love a hug and tell them you love them… don’t let another minute go by. Call someone to say hello, I am thinking about you. PM someone just to say hello and I care. This is what I can do to make it count.
If something can make someone else feel good for even a moment I can say I feel good and made that moment count.
Nobody is keeping score, nobody will remember what I said to Mrs. Jones and that is okay because I know for that moment in time - it counted.
Time waits for no one. What is in the past cannot be changed - what is in the future is unknown - In the present there is always something we can do no matter how small - we can make it count.
