{"id":971,"date":"2016-06-24T06:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2016-06-24T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T23:37:46","slug":"week-93-live-your-legacy-in-memory-of-sean-rollnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Week #93 – Live Your Legacy (in memory of Sean Rollnick)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“What’s your legacy?” (photo credit: Grace Church)<\/p><\/div>\n

Week #93 – Live Your Legacy (in memory of Sean Rollnick)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings Happyness Tribe!<\/p>\n

This week’s post comes on the heels of yet another loss in the Hopatcong community: Sean Rollnick (HHS Class of ’91) passed away in Hawaii. \u00a0He was 43.<\/p>\n

From the outpouring of love to his Facebook page, it is clear that Sean grew up to be one of those\u00a0amazingly beautiful people that walk this Earth. \u00a0As testimonial after testimonial of his direct impact on people rippled across my newsfeed, I was reminded of something I wrote last year<\/a> when Rob’s memorial planter was installed in Ocean Grove:<\/p>\n

“Through all the years we visited Ocean Grove — as children, teens, adults, and friends — I never dreamed our world would come to this. \u00a0Benches and planters were for old people, maybe even pets, but not for us. \u00a0We were young, vital, alive. \u00a0And then it occurred to me\u2026that is the point of the plaque. \u00a0Life is about what you do, where you do it, and who you do it with. \u00a0The plaques and benches along the boardwalk are filled with legacies: \u201c\u2026who loved Ocean Grove…\u201d, \u201c\u2026who helped us all to grow\u2026\u201d, \u201cwhose happiness was a day at the beach\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

If you had a plaque\u2026what would yours say?<\/p>\n

Your Happyness Challenge for the Week Ahead: LIVE YOUR LEGACY!!!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>I’ll ask you again, if someone were to write a memorial plaque about you\u2026what would it say? \u00a0Where would they put it? \u00a0Spend time doing that thing as if it was your last. \u00a0Imagine how you might want to be remembered…then make it a point to LIVE IT! \u00a0Do it with love\u2026do it with laughter…and above all: do it with Happyness!<\/p>\n

Life is short, my friends…sometimes shorter than we imagine it will be. \u00a0Don’t wait — live your legacy today!<\/p>\n

And to Sean’s family, friends, loved ones, and beautiful brand-new baby — my deepest condolences to you in the days, weeks, months, and years ahead. \u00a0There are some losses we never get over…we just have to go on, broken-hearted as we are, and live as they would want us to — fully.<\/em><\/p>\n

Spread Happyness — share your thoughts in the comments!<\/p>\n

6\/24\/16\u00a0by Grace Church
\n<\/em>\u00a9 Grace Church
\ngrace@spreadhappyness.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week #93 – Live Your Legacy (in memory of Sean Rollnick) Greetings Happyness Tribe! This week’s post comes on the heels of yet another loss in the Hopatcong community: Sean Rollnick (HHS Class of ’91) passed away in Hawaii. \u00a0He was 43. From the outpouring of love to his Facebook page, it is clear that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spreadhappyness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}