A redactor of an important national magazine wrote, in one of his articles, something that has taken us to a reflection about the live we take.

He wrote that it may not even be true. Perhaps the History does not prove the fact, however, it is an excellent idea.

In the ancient Rome, when a general was returning from a victorious campaign abroad, there was a great procession through the city.

The people got off to the streets to watch the triumphant parade of the winner commander and honor the greatness that he brought to the country.

It was the highest honor that a Roman citizen could strike. But, to get there, he should have worked very hard for Rome.

He should have killed in fighting at least five thousand enemy soldiers; he would have to show the defeated heads, who paraded behind his car; he should have faced an army, at least, equivalent to his own.

And, above all, he should bring his troop back home because a leader is responsible for his subordinates.

However, the Romans, who have passed into History as symbols of pride, paradoxically had in high regard their personal modesty.

How, then, to receive all this tribute, parading victorious through the crowd as a king, to be acclaimed as the great conqueror and not be full of pride?

There it is when the great idea appears. Right behind the victorious general, in the same car pulled by four horses, that he drove, was a slave.

From time to time, he whispered, in the ear of the conqueror: Memento mori. Which means: Remember that you will die one day.

Certainly, there is nothing better to put down the pride of any high authority that begins to think he is good, the best.

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Remember that you will die one day. This is the reflection that, from time to time, it would be opportune to allow.

We are not immortals in the flesh, although some, anticipating new and surprising achievements of the medical Science, affirm that the day will come when no more shall we die. It would be tragic and boring.

Immortal only as Spirits, that enter a body, live and produce, and come out of it, go back to the great home of Spirituality and return to the scene of the world.

This is called dynamism and renewal. But, remember that we will have an end, that our possible enemies will also die, that everything passes, it is healthy measure.

Nothing is eternal on Earth. The mundane issues pass, the power, the human authority, the physical life.

What it is today, tomorrow may fail to be.

Thus thinking, we will not remain attached to putative positions, fortunes, and petty interests. Everything is transitory on Earth.

Today we have the position, tomorrow it will be in other hands. Today we lead hundreds of people; tomorrow these same people could be following our funeral.

Let us think: only the Spirit is immortal. Only the spiritual goods are the ones that we can take with us, through our lives.

This being the case, let us sow the good, do our best as if today were our last day in this world. Let us love, embrace, do our best because tomorrow may surprise us in the fields of Spirituality.

There will be another reality, another time.

Let us think about it.

Spiritist Moment Team, with initial database
gotten from the article of J. R. Guzzo, published in Veja
magazine, in August, 29 of 2012.
June 5.2013.