For what?

The first half of life is for expanding, growing, and building. It is for - getting.

And in all our getting, we often forget who we are, who we were intended to become.

Then, hopefully, we re-member, pull ourselves together and remember all the lost pieces.

We mourn and forgive, others and ourselves.

Then the second half of life, which for some comes sooner than others, is for - giving.

Sharing who we remembered we are.

And sometimes all of this happens in a single day,

For getting.

Re-membering.

For giving.

pierre