Your Dash

I saw this in a publication and find it thought provoking.  How will you live out your dash?  Say what? We each have a date of birth.  After we die a dash will be placed after our date of birth followed by our date of death.  So how will you live out your dash?  What will you do with your dash?  For us older people, long range planning is not so much an option.  We have to get to stepping.  The dash is the great equality maker.  No matter how long or short our life, the dash is about the same length.  It is not the length of the dash that counts but what went into it.  My sister, Maureen, did not have a long life, but she had a great dash.  And you thought we weren't friends.