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Lloyd Alexander

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June 7th, 2012 - 08:50 PM

Echoes

One of my favorites quotes from the movie Gladiator that Russell Crowe says, " what we do in life, echoes in eternity" rings so true to me. It has gone from a cool line in a favorite movie to a true call for us all to heed.

In this life we live we leave our mark for eternity and we have a choice on what that mark is and how significant it is as well. Shall we leave one that endures in a positive ripple or one that leaves a negative wave? Our choice and ours alone to decide which way our lives shall impact the fate of others and their eternity just as those before us have continually alter the reality we live in.

How can this be so you wonder? Some people made great inventions, others made great discoveries, and others made nasty weapons but they all share a piece of the altering of eternity. Even the common folk have this very power. How did you raise your children? How did you treat other people? How did you treat the Earth and it's creatures? A destiny that was is not the same because a choice you made or maybe even didn't make has changed fate, has changed eternity.

As humans we have more control over eternity then any other species on the entire planet. We were given free will and it is with this free will that we make these choices that echo through the ages. A ripple if you will that continues through time just as it would through water if we dropped a rock in it.

So when it comes to nature and wildlife we must be stewards of their World. They cannot effect change as we can and we must choose to either be positive or negative in that World. Looking back over the course of time we can see both good and bad. Too often we have played God with horrible results.

We know more now then we did before but in the end we are only more dangerous with this knowledge. Our first generations of humans hunted to feed themselves and learned many things by watching the ways of wildlife. We learned ways to protect ourselves from danger and we learned what we could eat or not eat by seeing what they ate. On and on went the learning from them until as we progressed the need for greed crept into our World. Man wanting more then he needs has only led to bad things for the World and it echoes loudly through eternity.

Species have been hunted to extinction for reasons that are mind boggling. We may have called it sport or in the case of the buffalo a way to control another race of humans, the Indians. We kill now because we can and not because we need too. We take space not because it is something we must do but more because we simply want it. We do not consider the long term effects because they do not seem to affect us. All these decisions echo through eternity.

This is not to preach that we must have debates before we cut any tree or build any road. This is simply stating that we have the power to be aware of our echoes and we should treat them as if each last for eternity and will change the reality of those who follow us. There are many things that are gone forever that now only live in books or photographs. They are simply memories as there echoes are fading from eternity as they no longer make a ripple to carry onward. What a shame that our future generations do not get to have anything but a memory because we choose not to care and not to keep in mind what echoes in eternity we are making. Each and everyone of us will make many of them.

Which will you choose? Why will you choose it? "What We DO in Life Echoes in ETERNITY !"

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