When Steve Jobs passed away a few years ago, his sister, Mona Simpson, gave his eulogy. I remember reading it in the New York Times the next day and something she said leapt off the page at me. "We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories."
She's right.
But life, as well as death, happens in the middle of many stories.
People have moved in and out of mine. Some stepped out of my story far too soon and others overstayed their welcome. Some have been a source of great joy and others have left pain and hurt in their wake. Some have changed me in ways I can hardly explain and others I can barely remember. But all have left their mark.
We live and die, work and play, laugh and grow, in the middle of stories, of many stories.
We shape each other's plots.
We impact each other's stories.
We change each other's lives.
What an incredible responsibility it is to know that, for better or worse, we leave a mark.
What mark will you leave?
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