thepowerofme

I recently watched this evening the movie “The Bucket List”.  It was a charming movie with a good plot, and an amazing character development.  Enjoyed it imensley, glad my wife chose that movie for our evening enjoyment.  But one line in the movie really seemed to stick with me.  The one where they are sitting on the pyramids and begin to talk about what the Egyptians believed when they died.  See when they died the god’s would ask them two questions?  Question number one, “Did you find joy in your life?”  Question 2, “Did you bring joy to some one else’s?”  While examining those questions, number one is very easy.  Most of us have experienced joy sometime in our meager lives.  Let’s face it we are creatures of joy.  We have the tendency to do what ever makes us feel good in life.  Whether it be drinking till we throw up, or running naked down the streets screaming the word freedom, well did that after drinking too much and mixing it with the movie Braveheart.  But now once again I have digressed from the point at hand.  Best point of that is, this is my blog, if I want to digress, guess what I can.

The trouble with the line is question number two.  Have you brought joy to some one else?  The question is true joy, not the imagined joy we tend to feel we bring into evenings of great passion and ecstasy.  No, true joy, the type of joy that brings a change in a person’s life.  A change that can not be bought, forced, coerced, just happens after a moment of true joy.  See when we are able to create that type of relationship with others we are able to truly bring about a true relationship.  One that will survive the test of time.  Ask yourself one more question.  Are my relationships really true relationships, or superficial encounters that when I leave this world will be nothing more than forgotten memories and brief encounters of happiness?  If the answer to this is yes, then what are you going to do about it.  See to truly change those relationships to bring real joy into the hearts of others means you have to change.  To open up to the level to make yourself vulnerable to what others may think, or say, or react to your life.  To share, really share, the moments in your life that we tend to keep private.  This year take the challenge to bring real joy to some ones life.  Make a relationship that will last longer than, pass the bread.  Make a relationship that when you leave this world, a piece of them left behind dies as well.