The Dash

We'll all have one. It's kinda crazy. We do all we do and at the end of our lives, our time is minimised to this. A simple dash. 

In America, it was recently Mother's Day and on my mum's gravestone is written: 

1961-2004

But so much goes into that dash. A whole life in such a tiny mark.

But in the grand scheme of things, that dash is quite accurate about the magnitude, the weight, our lives actually carry.

One of my favourite movies is Gladiator with Russell Crowe. Towards the end of this trailer he says something profound:

http://youtu.be/ATdgiMNFsm4

"What we do in life echoes an eternity."

What we do with our dash matters because it effects our eternity. What are you doing with your dash? Are you making the most of it, making it something worth echoing for eternity? Or are you throwing your dash away?