Importance is earned through what you give.

Doesn’t how you spent your time matter?

You know one day it will end and your time will come.

You will vanish from this world like a book that never opens.

You will depart either in silence or be remembered and bid farewell by others.

Doesn’t how you spent your time matter?

It will find meaning through what you gave importance to.

If you gave nothing, it will fade and disappear.

You will become the worn pages of that unopened book.

If you touched other people or any living being,

Whether with love or with effort,

Your pages will come alive again through them.

You will be revived and find life through them.

Perhaps you will depart suddenly,

Yet the trees you nurtured will offer you leaves,

The soil you watered will give you fruit,

And every branch you saved will become a light for you.

Perhaps you will depart suddenly,

But you will gain significance in this world through what you valued,

And through what you valued, you will live forever…