HARVEST OF LIFE

There are a lot of harvests in autumn, but the biggest one is the harvest of your life, the fruit and vegetables of your existence on this big blue marble we call the 3rd rock from the sun. It’s the difference you make while you’re here visiting for a while.
No matter whether you’re young or old, you’ve left a wake behind you in this river rush life for others to deal with as your harvest, but what if your harvest is lacking. Here are some sure signs of that.
Your life’s harvest is lacking
If you’re closer to the IRS than to your own children and grandchildren and tax time is more precious to you than their birthdays.
If your obituary would be a dream come true for your loved ones, even better than winning the Power Ball.
If hit men, hired by your local Chamber of Commerce, are going door to door looking for you and everyone is so helpful to them.
If your family keeps putting your name and photo on the side of milk cartons, hoping you’ll disappear too.
If your dog shrugs when you come home, then runs the other way to play with the cat instead.
If your neighbors burn you in effigy as part of their regular July 4th celebrations, because they can never catch you in person to burn.
If homeless people won’t take you money because, frankly, they don’t think it’s good enough.
If telemarketers have stopped calling you because they’ve heard you’re the worst person in the world.
If life insurance salesmen avoid you, because life’s too short to spend that much time trying to sell you whole life, when they’ll just want you dead soon.
If the hospital board is seriously considering changing the name of the wing named after you, due to your huge donation, to the Charles Manson Maniac Pediatric Wing, because that would be more socially acceptable.
If the bluebird of happiness has dumped on your head because you tried to shot gun it in your driveway.
` If you no longer get any junk mail or Internet Spam because no one cares that much about you anymore.
If you’re listed on the Least Wanted Poster in the Post Office.
If, when a cop stops you for speeding, he says, that as far as he’s concerned, you need not buckle up for him ever again.
If your family goes on a family vacation every year without telling you.
If your goldfish would rather starve to death than being fed by someone like you.
If your national approval rate is lower than Satan’s.
If you’ve been rejected as an organ donor because no one wants any part of you.

In this misfortune cookie of life-
From the day you’re born
To the day you die,
It’s all just one long goodbye.
So the meaning of life is this.
To love and be loved while you’re here,
Then be missed when you disappear.