Fragile

We are all hanging by a thread...
Fragile...

I've played for many funerals over the course
of my years as a church pianist.
And I'm always struck by the things people remember
in the person being eulogised.
No one ever talks about the person's brand of clothes,
or car, or the type of make-up she/he wore.
Instead, most people focus on the stuff that endures...
people remember the kind deeds the person did for them...
the way they made them laugh...
the little quirks and idiosyncracies that made that person unique...

In the end, it's never about how big a house one built, or
how much money one made...
but it's about the friendships one cultivated...
the love one had for people...
it's about social currency, about the currency of the heart...
not the currency of finance.