If there is no after life – how do you make a life ever lasting? It’s nothing to do with genetics – it’s to do with the significant seven people that you meet on your journey. Little Miss Lizzy gives us something inspiring to think about in this thought provoking article. Wake up the memories and let’s get started.
I don’t believe in an after life but I do belief in a life everlasting. By this, I mean the parts of you and your personality that live on in others. For those of you who have children, the answer screams at you loudly and clearly because you live on through your children. They often have your traits, your physical attributes and your morals because they are quite literally a part of you.
But what if you have never been blessed with children through choice or otherwise?
I haven’t had kids so does that mean that when I die there will be no more of me on this earth? Absolutely not!
Many people have made me who I am today. Some people are still living and others have passed away. Yet all of them live on in me in an abundance of guises. My humour, my sensitivity, my confidence, the fragility of my heart, my resilience and ambition have all been acquired and modified in the last 38 years.
I want to introduce you to my significant seven – the people who I believe I have learned from and been most influenced by:
He made me resilient and always told me to never give up. I was only three years old when he came into my family and he treated us all so well. He led a simple but interesting life, dealing with many knock backs along the way. He used to say to me “When one door closes, another one will open.” He was very philosophical about life and encouraged me to ask questions and take risks as I got older. He died ten years ago this year but his spirit lives very strongly in me and the woman I have become.
Most people have a significant teacher that influenced them. I didn’t meet mine until I was 17 years old and went to do my A levels. I was a budding musician with hopes and dreams of being famous and touring the world as part of an orchestra. My music teacher didn’t influence my music career but rather he taught me the importance of commitment and loyalty to the cause. In short, he taught me to be a woman of my word and to this day it is what I am. “If you commit to something, you must see it through” he said.
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