Have you ever looked out of a window on an airplane 30, 000 feet in the air and watched the trucks and cars on the highways below moving to-and-fro like ants? Like ants, we have built an amazing network of highways all over the world to connect us to one another in commerce, families, government, entertainment, recreation, and far more. Not only do we have highways on the ground, but we have highways in the sky with flights in and out of cities all over the earth.
When I wake up each morning, I take flight and soar above my day-to-day activities so that I am not going back and forth with no sense of where I am going and why I am doing what I am doing. This gives me a chance to remember why I am here and what I hope to accomplish before my time is up on earth. So, as I think of myself from an aerial point-of-view, as one the ant-like human beings running to-and-fro, I want to make sure that I am as deliberate in my approach to life as the ants. Maybe, like the ant, our power to discipline ourselves, along with our ability to reason, we can do amazing things with the short time we have left on earth and leave legacies for generations to come.
What
would you like to leave for others to remember and benefit from after you have
left the planet? Like the ant, discipline
yourself now and leave something of value behind when you are gone.