Make life matter

Just spent a week in the Tri Cities. My sister passed, we were cleaning out her house,taking care of her business,and planning her funeral. Makes me think about the people in my life that have already passed. Very important people. What I find is that life goes on, it just moves on. as time passes, you think about those people less and less. and generations move on they are just forgot. So I wonder, what is the point. what does it matter what we do in life? Are are just going to die, the world will move on as though we were never in it. So this is what I am not thinking........ I have to make my life matter.. I have to live it in a way that I am proud of. I have to not waste any of it. Wasting time on things that don't make me proud. Living in a way that might make me sad. Living my life in a way that doesn't make a huge mark on my kids' lives. Now I do realize that STILL in a few generations, I still will be forgot as though I were never even here. So I must make my life matter to me, it can't be for the people that I leave behind, the people that will soon forget me. It has to be lived for me and my father.