Elvis – The legend lives on

Tens of thousands of Elvis devotees will make the pilgrimage to Graceland this week to mark the 30th anniversary of his death on Thursday. Elvis touched people’s lives and continues to do so, to a whole new generation. The Elvis legacy shows that death does not mean the end…your legacy will always live on.  Some lessons from the anniversary for me are

• The need to build a memorial to allow their legacy to live on.It may be physically smaller than Gracelands (!) but not emotionally.
• Find ways of keeping them in your life…Elvis does this through his songs, maybe for your loved ones it is through their photo’s or their stories.
• People with whom you have had a special bond, never fade from your mind.  
• Celebrating their life is as important as remembering their death.
• The power of song…Elvis moved people singing, we can find comfort in listening to the words.

Elvis may have sang about a “Wooden Heart” but the human heart is strong, it feels, it cries…we may sometimes feel that we wish we had a wooden heart, but for me our feeling heart is what makes human beings so special.