Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Writing a Self-obituary - Review of Life Yet to Happen!
I was reading in a newspaper article about a company in London asking a candidate being interviewed for a marketing job to write a self-obituary.
I was intrigued and could easily see the merits of such a thing, though of course according to the article the candidate was much less pleased than I was.
A self-obit could very easily be the tool that can provide us with perspectives which we simply cannot have otherwise. If I continue living the way I have been so far, my obit would look rather like this I'm afraid: "He was a pompous ass who did not care much about others, though it must be said he did not trouble them either. Opinion is divided regarding his achievements - while some admit he might have done a good thing or two, most others feel he highly over-rated himself with regard to his talents and had little to show for all his talk. However, one should not talk ill of the dead, so in summary, he was a human being who made not much difference in either the positive or negative way."
I'm not being self-critical, what you see above is what my obit would look like, if someone cared to write one that is.
Guess I should continue looking at this post often, perhaps that could change the way my obit would look eventually.
I was intrigued and could easily see the merits of such a thing, though of course according to the article the candidate was much less pleased than I was.
A self-obit could very easily be the tool that can provide us with perspectives which we simply cannot have otherwise. If I continue living the way I have been so far, my obit would look rather like this I'm afraid: "He was a pompous ass who did not care much about others, though it must be said he did not trouble them either. Opinion is divided regarding his achievements - while some admit he might have done a good thing or two, most others feel he highly over-rated himself with regard to his talents and had little to show for all his talk. However, one should not talk ill of the dead, so in summary, he was a human being who made not much difference in either the positive or negative way."
I'm not being self-critical, what you see above is what my obit would look like, if someone cared to write one that is.
Guess I should continue looking at this post often, perhaps that could change the way my obit would look eventually.
