"Your first duty in life is toward your afterself. So live that your afterself--the man (or woman) you ought to be--may in his time be possible and actual. Far away in the years he is waiting his turn; his body and his brain, and his soul are in your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. What will you leave for him? Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation; a mind trained to think and act; a nervous system true as a dial in response to the truth about you? Will your boy let him come as a man among men in his time; or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had the chance to touch it? Will you turn over to him a brain distorted, a mind diseased, a will untrained to action, or will you let him come, taking your place, gaining through your experience, happy in your friendships, hallowed through your joys, building on them his own? Or will you fling it all away decreeing that the man that ought to be shall never be? This is your problem, today and every day. The hour of your decision is the crisis of your destiny."
In case you haven't noticed, I really like quotes, A LOT. There is so much power behind them and they are so thought provoking. One day I will have a room full of quotes and one liners if I can organize them all. I came across this one today and it was one of those that hit me in the heart. What is the afterself you are living for?
"Become what you want to be by being what you want to become" -Elder Scott
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