What is your dash so far?

Question

A poem by Linda Ellis about a eulogy of a woman posed the question about the dash on the tombstone between the birth date and the date of death. The important part of someone’s life showing only as a dash is not significant enough to describe ones own existence. So, I was wondering what is your dash so far? Tell about what is most important to you in your life. What have you learned, thought, experienced, or taught?

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My dash so far... I'm just an average 35-year-old woman who paints and probably lives way to much in my own mind. Married to a great guy who loves me for who I am and I him. The things I've learned so far is the more I learn the more I don't know. The most important thing I can teach right now is of what I’ve experienced. Reflecting back on my past and somehow relaying it to others in hopes that they can take something away with them.

Answer 1

This is my 22ND year working with children in the school system. I can say that I have made a difference in so many children's lives and they in mine. I'm an example of how one person can make a difference. I have had the most rewarding life. It just thrills my heart beyond compare when one of my old kids now grown will see me somewhere and they run over and give me a big hug. I've never made a lot of money, but I wouldn't change me life for anything. Thank you for asking about my dash.

Answer 2

Through all the mysterious horrors in my life, the super natural confusion, the devilry of stupid people and the people created by those people, I would say the main simple concept that helped myself keep sanity together is the unified opposites positive and negative; to posit and to negate are the two kinds of action that a person may do with mind, body and spirit (the mental or intellectual part, the physical internal and external and, Spirit, feeling self reflective consciousness). The Judgment is negative, the Will is positive.

Answer 3

When in melancholy reminisce, I think upon the bright sun and fair winds of yesteryear. I long for the those times that brought me the gay laughter of many a youthful adventure with friends from my early years. Those languid, salad days lost now to the shadows of yesteryear. When life was rich with promise and few were its foreseen fears. The world was a fair. Open to any who would dare to take a ride on its many terrors. To chance the wildest of my dreams and slip on by, unscathed and free. To sail on, in wild abandon (it now seems), upon the frequent storms and emerge better than I began. To look at life as a happy adventure, not like sand, colored by the loss and failure of later years. Free of the pain and sorrow, that accompany the act of deep regret, for the foolishness that sent me careening down the wild and uncertain path, to where I now end.

Answer 4

My life? I think a dash is quite appropriate. Like quarks being observed in heavy water I am but a brief flash.


By the way, great question.

Answer 5

I'm happy with a dash. I want to be remembered as a down to earth person who didn't fret over little things, like a notch in a gravestone.