What Matters More, Location or Direction?

The purpose of this blog is a Shabbat table with a direction... Please share...

 

I'm sitting over here, you're sitting over there.

I'm writing you, you're reading me.

In a few seconds, I'll stop writing, in a few seconds you'll stop reading.

Will we then part ways?

I raise a child, the child is raised by me.

In a few years, I'll stop raising, in a few years she'll stop being raised.

Will we then part ways?

Through her I hope I will become a grandparent, then a great-grandparent, and maybe if all goes well a great-great-grandparent.

Will those grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren ever cease to be my grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren?

I'm writing a book that I hope no one will read 100 years from now because no one will need to.

I'm building an organization that I hope will not exist 100 years from now because no one will need it.

I'm raising children — my own and others' (through education) — who I hope will still be here 100 years from now.

I'm getting in the mood for Rosh Hashanah. Every other day of the year I work hard to live within my location. I'm getting ready to contemplate for a day or two the trajectory of my life.

Question for your table: What's more important, living a happy life or living a meaningful life?


Shabbat Shalom


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