If you have labored, acquired assets, and built an estate, it does not make sense to leave it to the government, cultural idiosyncrasies, or feuding siblings to take care of. The best person to sort out your estate is you. You do that by making a will.
Call your lawyer or get one, and put a will in place. Through your will, you determine where your assets or estate goes when your time is up. A will is a legal document, backed by law and protected by the state.
Some of us think that we are too young to make a will. Some feel that they will live forever. Whatever your belief, you have no control over when you take the final bow, unless you want to do it yourself by blowing your head off. Our lives are not in our hands. We have to put our house and affairs in order.
I know that death always evokes fear and some queasy feelings in us. We know that we will all die someday, but we don’t want to talk about it. We feel that by avoiding it, we somehow keep it at bay.
Permit me to repeat a line from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:
“Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once:
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end
Will come, when it will come.”
Like failure, we have to deal with the reality of death and face it. Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. The fear of death is a snare. We always feel that it is something that happens to other people. Well, those that went also felt so.
Prepare Your Will
We have to put our house in order at all times. It is important to protect our loved ones from a hostile takeover of our assets from the government or predators after we have gone. We owe it to them. Like insurance, we are not praying for adversity, but we prepare for it.
Life is like a play. We come on stage, play our part, and take a bow, as the curtain falls. It is not how long you lived that matters, but how well. Some folks like Rev Martin Luther King Jr, came for a short while and left indelible footprints in the sands of time. Some folks live to be 90 and went back to the way they came, with their dreams.
Whether you are 25 years or 55 years old, the best time to prepare your will is today. You can update it as you hit major milestones in your life. Do not procrastinate. Sometimes tomorrow never comes.
