VALUE ADDED.........?

    A funeral was taking place in a certain village, the homestead was filled. Time came for the eulogy to be read, suddenly five other mourners came and started wailing loudly, "Okai, our son, ooh! Okai." Everybody was staring at them in amusement. As the mourners approached the casket, they saw a picture of a lady known as Masha and not that of a man named Okai.
    The mourners were hired to mourn the said man who was said to be a thief in the next village, nobody wanted to attend his funeral so the family had to hire the mourners.
    When my friend and I heard of the death of our former first lady, we started analyzing who and how many people will mourn us when we die. Will dignitaries send condolences to our families? Will it be breaking news to the world, to the country or to narrow the scope the village? Well to me it doesn't really matter, so long as I will have genuine mourners, even if they are a handful, my soul will rest in peace. (of course am not saying am about to die, My God is not that mean)

    The thing is do you add value to other people? Do you influence people positively? Do you put a smile on peoples faces? Do you bring hope to the hopeless? Do you introduce people to your God?
    Adding value to others mainly entails talking to people especially those people whom you often ignore, those who always do bad, ugly stuff, those people we often don't want to be involved with, those who are unloved and unwanted. Just few words can change everything in their life forever and they can be the change the world needs.
    |It doesn't really matter who or how many people come to your funeral. What matters is whether your absence will be noted or felt.

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