Are You Living a Life Worth Remembering?

By Frosty Wooldridge

Totally blind in his teens, American Erik Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to climb Mount Everest.  He continued until he climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents.   Bob Wieland lost his legs to a bomb blast in Vietnam, but walked across America on his hands coast-to-coast.  Time: three years, eight months, six days!  Later, he hand-cycled west to east and east to west across America.  Not finished, he became the first double amputee to complete the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.  He ran the New York, Boston and Chicago Marathons that took him five days to finish each race.  At 67, he again hand-cycled coast-to-coast across America.

(Four kids in a country town walking down the street. How will their life histories turn out?  Will they live lives worth remembering?)

American Aimee Mullins, 37, without legs below the knees since childhood, races track, models and gives motivational speeches. She said, “True disability is having a crushed spirit.”  She redefines what a woman can be and what she can accomplish.

Wilma Rudolph, sickly as a child, wore braces, but became the first woman to win three gold medals at the 1960 Olympics where they celebrated her as the world’s fastest woman.

Your choices in life transform you from the banal to the poetic—even to the noble.  Wasn’t it Shakespeare’s character “Shylock” a moneylender in the “Merchant of Venice” who spoke these words that ring out in the 21^st century, “If you prick us, do we not bleed? And if you tickle us, do we not laugh?  It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.”

With those words ringing into the rafters of your mind, how will you live a life worth remembering?

If you’re 20 years old, you enjoy choices to lead an epic life that propels you to heroic memories.  By age 30, you burned through your 20s and may relish some epic moments.  By 40, you you’re half way through.  Have you lived a life worth remembering?  Or, did the “mid-life crisis” hit you square in the eyes—leaving you with a panicky feeling?  By 70, your after-burners exhausted themselves, leaving you in a gentle glide to your final moments.

If you live on this side of 40, are you creating a remarkable life for yourself?  Do you live on any “searing the edges”?  Are you carving out some extraordinary physical, intellectual or spiritual expression of yourself?

What made the above four “ordinary people” overcome their horrific physical conditions?  What drove them to greatness?

Remember this:  if something doesn’t challenge you, you won’t change.  Therefore, instead of watching an average of 29 hours of television weekly by the majority of Americans, create challenges in your life that propel you to more “noble” encounters.  If you divide 29 hours by 7 days, that equals an extra 4.1 hours daily to think about, dream about and participate in activities or challenges outside your comfort zone.

Opportunities: weight training to build a healthy body, cross training to run a triathlon this summer, or buy a canvas, paints and brush to dabble with a painting roiling around in your ingenious mind.  You might enter a pottery class to find your talents at throwing pots with intricate designs.  How about becoming a chef?

On the intellectual front, read books that interest you.  Enroll in a class in jewelry making.  Enter a mechanic’s class to repair old cars.  Most cities feature “Free University” classes to incorporate dozens of arts, hobbies and other classes to fit your propensities and passions.

In this life, discover what makes your life worth remembering.  What will they say at your memorial service? 

“She (he) lived with exuberance, imaginative energy and a song in her heart,” smiled the preacher.  “She entered the realm of potential and opportunity to live a grand and glorious life.  She wasn’t lucky; she chose her destiny.  We remember her nobility through her actions.”

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Frosty Wooldridge
Golden, CO

Www.HowToLiveALifeOfAdventure.com

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Frosty Wooldridge, six continent world bicycle traveler, Mexico to Canada summer 2013, 2,500 miles, 150,000 vertical feet of climbing, 19 passes, and a whole lot of fun! Yahoo!