I have this taped on my bathroom mirror so I remind myself every day............

The life you've lived today

Can you say tonight in parting with the day that's slipping past,
That you helped a single person of the many you have passed?
Is a single life rejoicing over what you did or said?
Does one whose hopes were fading, now with courage look ahead?
Did you waste the day or lose it, was it well or poorly spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness, or scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber. do you think that they would say,
"You have made the world much better for the life you've lived today?"

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I am here for only a short time on this earth. My goal is to make everyone I see smile if only for a moment.