Note Found in a Wallet

Last week at our Brazos Towers residents' meeting, our director, Scott Perlman, read us a letter supposedly found after his death in the wallet of Bear Bryant, the legendary Alabama football coach.  I'm reprinting it here because it was so inspiring.

The Magic Bank Account

Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest.  Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use.  However, the prize has rules:

     1. Everything you didn't spend each day would be taken away from you.

     2. You may not transfer money into some other account.

     3. You may only spend it.

     4. Each morning, upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.

     5. The bank can end the account without warning at any time it can say, "Game over."  It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you personally do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right?

Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for.  Even for people you don't know because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

ACTUALLY, the game is REAL.

Shocked??? Yes!

Each of us already is a winner of this prize.  We just can't seem to see it.

The PRIZE is TIME.

     1. Each morning we awaken to 86,400 seconds as a gift of life.

     2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is not credited to us.

     3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.

     4. Yesterday is forever gone.

     5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time without warning.

So what will you do with your 86,400 seconds?

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars.  Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.

Take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and know and pursue your priorities.  

Start "spending!"