Every day I drive to work and experience the joy and wonder of viewing the monuments of Washington, DC as I enter the city. It's an amazing thing, and something most of us Washingtonians take for granted.
A few weeks ago I was thinking about how awesome it would be if there was (in a few hundred years) something that I would have accomplished that would have warranted the building of a monument, to my awesomeness. I'm serious. This thought actually came into my head as I drove in to the city while the Cherry Blossoms were in full bloom.
Then again, what's the point? I wouldn't ever see it. And my children probably wouldn't either. But there is something that I can do now, which will affect the rest of my life. I can live and behave in my life the way I should, so that there will never be a reason that someone would remember me with ill-will.
