Stand for Something

It's Saturday, it's fall, Thanksgiving is coming next month, then the holidays will be here, and over and a new year begins. Today is just as good a day to start turning things around if you are going down the wrong road as any day.

 Stand for Something         by Beth Grimm          October, 2018

 Life is short, we hear that a lot

so what do you do with it?

You can let it direct you

or you can be the director.

You get to choose.

 

I mean

you don’t get to choose what happens to you

but you do get to choose what you do with it

how you respond.

What you do with your time and thoughts.

How much you listen.

How much you talk.

 

You have a stake

In what road you take.

 

So stand for something

Yes, I could say

stand UP for something

find a cause

make a difference.

 

But it doesn’t even have to be that hard.

Stand for something

leave a meaningful mark

make your life count.

 

Go, do, create

illustrate.

Make a mark.

 

Don’t be remembered as

that person who…

Well I don’t know

what did they do?

 

Be good, be kind, find something

Or someone, to love,

give, donate, share with others,

write, tell, make up stories

it doesn’t have to be

about anything monumental

every day life counts for something.

Everyone has one until they don’t.

It’s quite simple.

 

Stand for something.



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