The Dash
This blog may not be news to you. You may have heard it before.
On the other hand, I was talking to a young man this weekend who had never heard about the concept of the dash, and was moved by it; maybe it will be new to you too.
In either case, it is a good reminder for all of us.
One day, we will each and all of us be gone. If you believe like me, you may believe that you will move on to a better place when you leave this world;
but either way the story of the dash speaks to the urgency of living life well while we are here.
When we are gone, our earthly body will be laid to rest and there may be a tombstone that marks the place we are buried.
That stone will list two dates and a dash- the day we are born and the day that we die, with a dash in the middle.
The dash represents the years we live, the only part that we have control over.
In these brief years we have control of what we do and what we don’t do, how we treat others, our attitude and what we decide to do with our life.
We get to choose the kind of difference we will make, and the legacy we will leave.
Time is the most valuable and precious resource we have, and the one that we know not how much we have left.
So spend and invest it wisely.
Make the most out of your dash.
Grand Master Stephen J. Del Castillo
Author, MBA & 7th Degree Blackbelt
Founder & Chief Master Instructor,
Krav Maga Martial Arts
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