Vi veri universum vivus vici

"By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe" - No I did not just watch V for Vendetta again nor did I reread Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus.


I had an epiphany and this phrase popped into my head at the moment of discovery. 


Relevance. 
That's what this phrase reminds me of, my relevance. 
Everyday society renders us irrelevant, we are cast on the shores of distant memories. Our lives become a tale no one can really remember. It becomes something that is worth forgetting because it's too hard to remember. Hence becoming it irrelevant. 


I don't want to be irrelevant. 
Almost a year ago I wrote a post about how we will not be remembered. Clearly relevance is an old issue for me. I have a tendency to over imprint, it is my nature and I can't seem to help it. Most of often it is taken the wrong way. A desperate cry for help could be seen and jealous plea for attention. A quiet reflection could be misunderstood as indignation to those around. 


I am irrelevant. 
So are you. But it's okay. That's it. 
That  was my moment of 'aha!' it's not irrelevance that frightens me because at some point, somewhere we all are. I was more afraid of the forgetting, forgetting does not mean irrelevancy. Even if the world forgets, my relevance is not counted by the memory of the many but the impact on the one. 


Vi veri universum vivus vici. 
"By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe". 
I make someone's life relevant by letting them impact me and if I can impact one, then the truth I have and the universe is mine for the taking. 


I am relevant.
So are you.