He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.

A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to anyone expect the holder of the memory. Parenting in large part consists of creating positive memories for children. An accumulation of a lifetime of memories does create a musical score that we can assess from an artistic if not scientific perspective. Each happy memory generates a beat of minor joy that when strung together form the musical notes demarking a person’s prosodic inner tune.

Awake your soul to happy memories.