[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/death\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/death\/","headline":"Death","name":"Death","description":"Live the dash. The journey ends the same way for […]","datePublished":"2023-01-23","dateModified":"2023-03-01","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/#Person","name":"algorithmlife","url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/author\/algorithmlife\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7d9ce54bf7884db06c868d4c3d9f401d81cecc940d6403409642a6a34d06caa8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Person","name":"Dave Burnett"},"url":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/death\/","about":["Overcome More"],"wordCount":460,"articleBody":"Live the dash.The journey ends the same way for all of us.The journey of life.\u00a0 Enjoy it, it’s one heck of a ride.Who will you meet at the end of your days?\u00a0 Is the man you could have become, the man you are?Plenty of mistakes, but no regrets.I was considering naming this book live the dash.\u00a0 That is a short form for me of looking at my father’s tombstone, and seeing the dash in between the years: 1944-2006.\u00a0 When you take a moment and think about it, that’s what your life comes down to.\u00a0 The dash.\u00a0 That small mark on the stone between two numbers. The story is all in the dash.\u00a0 The challenges, the joys, the love, the life, the moments that matter, and the moments that don’t.\u00a0 How many people around you are truly living the dash? One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn, or truths I’ve had to face, is all the lives you know, all the people around you you’ve ever met, will one day be gone.\u00a0 The journey ends the same way for all of us.\u00a0 In the ground.\u00a0 In a memory.\u00a0 In a history book.\u00a0 Realize that, and many many problems, wrongs, and annoyances become a lot smaller. Will you remember that person who cut you off in traffic?\u00a0 What about that rude waiter?\u00a0 That girl you asked out who said no.\u00a0 That boy you didn’t dance with.\u00a0 There are many moments in every life that are defining, but one of the most is when you realize you won’t be here forever, and that makes you stop and think about how you will be remembered. I’m often asked what drives you?\u00a0 What motivates you?\u00a0 It’s me.\u00a0 It’s who I want to be.\u00a0 Not the driven one, but the one who at the end of days I’m happy with.\u00a0 Something that drives me is potential.\u00a0 Who is the best version of me?\u00a0 Who is the person I could be, should be, and can be? There are stories of people who at their end of days have ghosts of their unfulfilled potential around them, crying because they were never brought to fruition.\u00a0 They were never brought to life.\u00a0 It’s not the opportunities that were missed, it is the potential that goes unfulfilled.\u00a0  So at the end of my days, I want to look myself in the mirror, and know, I am the best version of me possible given the limited resources at my disposal.\u00a0 I did everything I could with what I was given.\u00a0 That the best version of me is who I was.\u00a0 Who I am. That will have been a life worth living."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Overcome More","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Death","item":"https:\/\/algorithmforlife.com\/overcome-more\/death\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]