Its interesting how our lives can be summed up in a time span.
Komla Dumor (1972-2014)
Indeed hearing the news of the death a man who has tried in earnest to put Africa on the world map has caused me to think. To think of how much time we have in this life of ours. To wonder what determines that we have lived our lives.
I have always wanted never to grow, maybe because of the responsibilites that comes with growing up or maybe because 'it is great to be young' yet ofcourse I am growing and as adulthood has embraced me so shall marriage and parenthood. For me it is like watching an hour glass as the sand trickles down (just like in Days of our lives) and I ask myself, what have I done with my life? Where will I be in years to come?
That said, I have to immediately step out of the melancholy and change course...another person's death has had an impact on my life.
Taylor Smith (2002 - 2014)
Her's though is less of melancholy for me. Reading her letter to herself to be read when she was 22 years old, I was amused and intrigued. Growing up I have always wondered what I would say to myself if ever I can go back into time but never have I wondered what I will tell my future self hence Taylor has inspired me. What will I tell my future self? Maybe the time capsule is not so bad if I look at life in the future rather than in the past because after all the future holds more hope than the past.
I have decided to live life and remember my creator in my youth for that is the best I can do for now.
