I said I was retiring my livejournal but....

[jillbert0605]

Its been a year since she died. I keep thinking about something that was said at Kay Scott's funeral. One autumn afternoon, when her cancer was particularly bad she was looking out the window while her children were playing in the yard. Her husband came in and asked if she needed anything. She said that everything she could have ever wanted was

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[cjceej]

our lives become meaningful by the measure of the impact we have on each others' lives; that is to say, the meaning of life is in the connections we make to other people during our lifetime.

if i died today, i would die at least marginally content that i'd had a positive influence on peoples' lives who are close to me. there are other things i hope yet to accomplish in life, though, so i might be unhappy about that... but hey, i would be dead, so i guess i would not care either way. ;p