For Whoever Saves One Life, Saves The World Entire

Ever take the time to think about life and death? I mean really think about it? Religion and science aside, just life and death and how the earth continues to spin even if your world stops?

The other day, I was riding along with a friend and we drove past a cemetery, where at least a hundred people were gathered for the funeral of a loved one. For these people, their world stopped spinning. Time stopped. It was just them and their friend/father/mother/grandmother/grandfather/son/daughter/whomever, being lowered into the ground.

But my world wasn't effected and continued to spin.

The life of one individual is now a part of history. Whether their name will be forgotten once the present family goes, or they did something to have their name immortalized, the fact is, is that they are gone. And had I not driven by, I would have not even known that someones world stopped spinning.

This reminded me that I need to live my life. My world is still spinning, and I need/want to make my life memorable. I don't care if I do something that immortalizes my name for the rest of time, as long as my life is spent doing things that not only better myself, but for at least one other person.

A line from the movie Schindler's List, originally in the Talmud, "For whoever saves one life, saves the world entire", is something I would like to live by.

If I can make the life of one person better, help them get past a struggle, then I can die a happy man. I don't want to do it just to make myself seem better than others, seem like some glorified gold medal winner, it's just a personal gain for myself. It makes me happy to make others happy. And if I can help make the life of one person better, I help make their whole world better.

When my world stops spinning, I want everyone's world to keep spinning.