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Musebox: The Memorial of Self

The Memorial of Self

As each day is chipped from the rock of our existence, our physical life is reduced. Yet this daily sculpting serves to give us shape and purpose. Each blow creates an edge, that sharpens and defines our true selves.

For some, the process will be one of many small taps of the mallet, with carefully placed blows, delivered over a lifetime. For others a hasty or angry blow early on may damage the stone and thereby affect all the work that comes later.

Regardless of our circumstance, or choice in how we were sculpted, when our lives have passed we will all leave behind these memorials large and small, delicate or ponderous, carefully crafted or cracked and haphazardly constructed.

One thing is certain. No matter where we are in our lives, or how the stone has been carved thus far, the end result can be improved when we become conscious of the work we have done -and still might do. It is never too late to step back and review our progress, see where false blows were struck, and adjust our approach to avoid repeating the error.

Decide what you want your life to have been about before it's over. Then plan a course to help you get there.