What matters?

The other night I was reading a book about life. And there were 2 sentences which hit me.

“What matters is not the duration of your life but the donation of it.Not how long you lived, but how you lived.”

I was thinking about myself, so far what I’ve done was only for myself, just to gain something especially knowledge. It’s not that bad but sometimes with eagerness I want to do something for others with the things I gained. These thoughts lead me to one old illustration about the Dead Sea and Galilee Lake. Galilee is a lake full of life because it takes in water but also gives it out. In contrast, nothing lives in the Dead Sea, because with no outflow, the lake has stagnated. And it’s just like me; I’m just studying and studying, I’m fed up with this, I should become like Galilee Lake, with inflow and also with outflow. Gaining too much knowledge is just makes me prideful.
Two years ago when I was thinking about one’s meaning of life asking myself what will be my goal in life. When I think about society there’re so many issues and demands that I should be trying to solve. I know that I can’t do all of these things alone, but I wish that I can do even the smallest things. And that time I realized the only thing that I can do is to invest my life for the development of man. When you think about the investment for some project or something else it won’t be last forever. But investing for one’s life will be everlasting. From generation to generation this circle of investment will go by itself. Maybe you think that it’s very simple and would tell me that everyone is doing like as I said, and might ask me what is the significance. Maybe everyone is doing like that but I have a dream; dream that everyone would be value the kindness of heart and; brightness of mind. Maybe it’s not that much significant, but this is my contribution to human kind.

In the last, I want to say: You were born to make a contribution; you weren’t born just to consume resources- to eat, breathe and take up space.