Imagine Yourself at the End of Your Life

To imagine myself at the end of my life
With the slow tick of time as my trial of strife
Then left only with memories of what used to be
What would I look back at and tell the now me?

1. What are the things that truly do matter?
Set all the rest to the wind there to scatter
2. Don't fritter away time being discontent
If something's amiss, now's the time to repent
3. Develop yourself: be creative, invent
Value your family, where time is best spent
4. And more than anything done on this earth
Get to know God, for death is a rebirth

thoughts from reading
What Got You Here
Won't Get You There
By Marshall Goldsmith

I was attracted to the picture on the cover
A man standing on the top rung of a tall ladder
and out of reach another ladder hanging in the sky

I skimmed it to the end and found this jewel:
Pause and ask the person you will be when you are old and dying.
What will that elderly person say to you?
He said when death bed persons are asked what really matters
it isn't money
but
relationships, happiness, following dreams, and meaning