Make a difference

We are made of stardust.
We are children of the stars from the very first moment of the Big Bang whence we came.
I am proud of my Simian ancestry.
I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees.
Who would be so silly as to exchange this for the wretched couple in the Garden of Eden?
Many struggle to achieve immortality, without knowing that YES, WE are Eternal, in the sense that our DNA will go on living far longer than our mortal bodies.
Since the Dawn of Humanity, man has asked himself: what am I here for?
I have a simple answer: Because you ARE, and because you HAVE to make a difference.
In the life you live, a small, a big, an unknown a well known, a good, a bad, A DIFFERENCE.
Because you existed and you had the chance to exist.
I am not sure what kind of difference I can make.
Sometimes I do not even want to make a difference.
I would just like to live, without thinking, without a goal, without a purpose.
Then I think life would be so boring, so unlivable, so senseless and I feel like I want to make a difference.
Among the people I live with, among the flowers of my garden, among the things that surround me.
I want to make this today and that tomorrow, so that the day after tomorrow I can be proud and happy of what I did.
I want to wake up and know I have millions of things to do, duties to fulfill, tasks to enjoy.
Life for me is DOING, is LIVING, is WORKING, is going to be so tired, that my eyes close and I feel so good, just because I am in bed.
And I am so happy, because the simple fact of being able to lie in my bed and sleeping gives me so much pleasure.
The difference is not in being a famous writer, but in writing the things you like to read.
It is not being a famous actor, but living the life you like (and have) to live.
It is not having, but being.
A little bit less monkey and a little bit more human.
That is for me making a difference.
~ Patrizia

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Post Author Patrizia Broghammer is the author of VoIP. She writes there, "It has become nearly impossible to out-dumb the existing in new media, multimedia, monomedia, but I gave it a try..." and you will find that apart from a few posts, she does not write about the technical, explaining, "because I am a pharmacist, and deep in my soul I am a philosopher."

Comments

[Steve Sherlock]

Welcome Patrizia! What a wonderful opening post.

A book mark I acquired from a special friend in college that I still use (not for every book, it is getting a bit old as college was so long ago) quotes: "The greatist gift one can give to another person is a DEEPER understanding of life and the ABILITY TO LOVE and BELIEVE IN SELF." Chantau

[dave]

Welcome Patrizia!

"...and we are golden
and we got to get ourselves
back to the garden..."*

The person that you are being Patrizia, is causing this person to be thinking. And that makes all the difference.

*Joni Mitchell - Woodstock

[Rosa Say]

I have read your posting a few times now Patrizia, just loving the honesty of it. I think we all feel this way at times more often than we care to admit:
“Sometimes I do not even want to make a difference.
I would just like to live, without thinking, without a goal, without a purpose.”

But then we hope to feel this way…

“Then I think life would be so boring, so unlivable, so senseless and I feel like I want to make a difference.”

I think I'm another monkey trying to be a little bit more human too! I can certainly imagine my family, friends, and once-were-employees describing me that way at times!

[Patrizia Broghammer]

Thanks Rosa and all the others, I didn't expect so much.
I wrote it and believe in it, even tough sometimes I think monkeys are better than us human...and may be changes didn't improve us that much...
But we have to go on, we are here for that and too bad we are so far in the beginning of the ladder, sometimes I am like those children who are eager to know what the end will be, when they begin to read the beginning...

Patrizia