My goal is to never be finished

I’m not in any hurry to move on to the next plane of existence. There’s still too much I’d like to do. But I know in a perfect world, I’ll leave some stuff unfinished.

“In a perfect world”? Wouldn’t a perfect world be the one where everything is completed and tied up with a bow?

Nope. Don’t think so.

How would it feel to say, “I’m finished. I’ve accomplished everything I ever wanted to do, done everything I set out to do”?

It would feel wrong, says I. There should always be something on the agenda to do next, or what’s a heaven for?

We all should leave something on the table as evidence we didn’t stop growing and learning and doing.

The best-case scenario is people will say, “Too bad he didn’t finish this and that, but look at all this other cool stuff he did.”

Published by WarrenBluhm

Wordsmith and podcaster, Warren is a reporter, editor and storyteller who lives near the shores of Green Bay with his wife, two golden retrievers, Dejah and Summer, and Blackberry, an insistent cat. Author of It's Going to Be All Right, Echoes of Freedom Past, Full, Refuse to be Afraid, Gladness is Infectious, 24 flashes, How to Play a Blue Guitar, Myke Phoenix: The Complete Novelettes, A Bridge at Crossroads, The Imaginary Bomb, A Scream of Consciousness, and The Imaginary Revolution.

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