Memorials – How We Mark Our Lives

Our lives are littered with a startling array of memorials. It seems that we have the need to lay down markers at various junctures of our lives in order to memorialize those chosen junctures. We are a people of history; of times and places that at times and in places need to be marked as having something of robust significance.

Yet, we frequently mark our failures instead of our successes. The map of our journey is littered with memorials to disappointments, short-comings, poor choices and monumental losses. And in the end, the compilation of markers irrefutable stamps us as failures when in reality our successes are far more numerous and significantly more impacting. Therefore, we might be wise to inventory our memorials, and in doing so erect them over the successes that we’ve errantly bypassed.