Life is not a right, it’s a gift given with each sunrise,
And how you live it is up to you, before your demise.
So reprioritize your value systems along the way,
Know what’s important and what’s trivial as you live each day.

For what you have, you can be grateful
Or for what you have not, you can be hateful.
If you only take,
Your life will be full of hate.

Never take things for granted,
Giving is the only kind of living there is.
What do you want your life to stand for?
What difference do you want to have made?

The best epitaph one could have reads,
“He was of help and a good friend.”

By Ann Leyh