✨ “In the end… what will be your legacy?”

🎶 “Love is all”-Roger Glover – Ronnie Dio

At pivotal moments, everything we so often strive for, fight for, or cling to suddenly feels irrelevant.

Status.

Being right.

Perfection.

The image others have of us.

Material things.

All of it quietly moves to the background.

When we — or someone we love — look death in the eye.

When someone lets us go or leaves us behind,

when we struggle to stay upright in the middle of a storm,

when loss finds us in whichever form it chooses,

when life falters or brings us to a standstill.

But also the other way around: when life lifts us above ourselves for a moment.

With new life.

When we step into an adventure with courage.

When we decide to share our life with someone.

On these peaks and valleys of existence… very little truly matters.

We fall silent.

When everything falls away, when the noise that so often distracts us grows quiet, one truth comes sharply into focus:

that there is really only one thing that truly counts.

Love.

Not only romantic love, but the universal, spacious kind.

That gentle, palpable presence of connection, safety, tenderness, and care.

But just as quickly, the noise returns and we pick up the pace of everyday life.

There is nothing inherently wrong with that…

And yet I often wonder:

In the end… isn’t love the only thing you truly keep?

The love you felt, shared, and received.

And, if you’re lucky, the love that still finds you in the final moments.

It no longer matters how often you were right, how much money sits in your account, how full your agenda was, how well the construction went, how high your grades were, or how much luxury you accumulated.

Perhaps that’s why it has become my intention — not only at the end but already now — to let love be my compass.

The thread running through my actions and choices, my living and letting live.

I don’t always find that easy.

Sometimes it feels nearly impossible.

And yet I keep returning to that one question:

“What would Love do?”

Because I believe that, in the end, love is the only thing that truly matters.

So it seems logical — almost self-evident — to live today with that end-of-life wisdom in mind.

To choose love as a lifestyle.

Love as a legacy.