Salt..

 

I am on the phone with a loved one. It had been forever since we last talked and I did not have a genuine reason for not having kept in touch. You know we can all use the excuse that we’ve been busy though we know we really haven’t. As the conversation went on a thought crossed my mind, ‘who will cry when you die?’ I had a phone call to finish but the intensity of the thought wouldn’t let me. Right at the other end of the phone was one of the few people who would be broken in my, and God forbid, untimely demise.

Now, I am not saying we develop this inflated feeling of self-worth and try imagining our funerals in a bid to see who would cry and who wouldn’t. Just pose and ask yourself this question, ‘whose life is directly impacted by me being on earth such that my exit would change the trajectory of theirs?’ If you can answer this question then you can tell who you need to call and visit more often, spend time with more, buy gifts, send money to, ask how their day was, and such.

I know life is fast-paced but you can always slow yours down to get a clearer picture of what and who really matters because, at the end of the day, those are the only people and things that give meaning to your life. I like to call them SALT. They add flavor to your life. It doesn’t matter how many spices are added to a broth if there is no salt, it is tasteless. The same applies to our lives. We can have all the things that make life colorful but without our ‘salt’, they would be worthless. Do not neglect this often despised ingredient because it is essentially it which gives meaning to all others.

This post reminds me of an older post I did about ‘the mayonnaise jar and the golf balls.’  You can make a point of rereading it to recalibrate your compass to your true north in case you drifted.

Ps, what should have been the ideal title for this post ‘salt’ or ‘who will cry when you die’?