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Your legacy = does it matter?
- Thread starter Ozzie
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BucephalusBB
ABACABB
I don't give a wooden nickle about mah legacy..
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Halcyon
Lord of the Badgers
You mean kids?
I want kids eventually, I'm 25 now, I tend to try and live my life according to my own ethics anyway, which I think most people would think are good enough to gel with wider society. So if/when I do have kids I think it'll be more a case of instilling in them my sense of morality than worrying about looking bad in front of them.
Somewhat. Even though I will probably be forgotten in the future, I would like to be a benefit to society in some way. I don't know about children. Although the idea of raising children is rather tantalizing; it's an enormous responsibility. So as of right now I'm undecided.
18.
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
It was Spring of 1978 when I first visited my father's grave at the National cemetery in Pensacola Florida. I checked with the care takers, resplendent in their uniforms and they gave me a map with the address of his plot. Wow. It was huge.
So I went to go find him and did not drive. I soon found out just how big this place was. As I stood above him, I realized that he was buried among strangers: men he had never met in real life. As I looked on his neighbor's grave, I realized that few people (if any) knew that this man had even existed and that I would soon not be able to recall his name.
It then dawned on me that a tombstone made a terrible legacy, and yet that's all that most people leave. Unremarkable lives marked by unremarkable stones. I was stunned. So, I thought about those who HAVE left real legacies and what they really meant to me. I decided that if I were to be known for ANYTHING it just had to be about love & service and not hate. I started with my children and friends, and I hope to keep learning how to love and serve others as time went on.
To date, because of my service, I am became the owner of www.ScubaBoard.com. It has since grown to be the Single Largest Media Presence for Scuba Diving on this planet. More people know about "NetDoc" than I would have ever guessed possible. Un-stinking-believable. So now I feel that I am well on my way to leaving a legacy: a community of divers who care about the sport of Scuba and who love to share it with others. I am blessed beyond belief.
As a caveat. It is my wish to leave this physical existence with absolutely no tombstone or epitaph to mark me. When the time has come, I will make one last incredibly deep dive. I hope to pass out from the sheer euphoria of the deep before I die from exposure or asphyxia. I will see something that I have always wanted to see, and perhaps some things I never expected. If I die before I get to make this final dive, I want to be buried at sea.
So I went to go find him and did not drive. I soon found out just how big this place was. As I stood above him, I realized that he was buried among strangers: men he had never met in real life. As I looked on his neighbor's grave, I realized that few people (if any) knew that this man had even existed and that I would soon not be able to recall his name.
It then dawned on me that a tombstone made a terrible legacy, and yet that's all that most people leave. Unremarkable lives marked by unremarkable stones. I was stunned. So, I thought about those who HAVE left real legacies and what they really meant to me. I decided that if I were to be known for ANYTHING it just had to be about love & service and not hate. I started with my children and friends, and I hope to keep learning how to love and serve others as time went on.
To date, because of my service, I am became the owner of www.ScubaBoard.com. It has since grown to be the Single Largest Media Presence for Scuba Diving on this planet. More people know about "NetDoc" than I would have ever guessed possible. Un-stinking-believable. So now I feel that I am well on my way to leaving a legacy: a community of divers who care about the sport of Scuba and who love to share it with others. I am blessed beyond belief.
As a caveat. It is my wish to leave this physical existence with absolutely no tombstone or epitaph to mark me. When the time has come, I will make one last incredibly deep dive. I hope to pass out from the sheer euphoria of the deep before I die from exposure or asphyxia. I will see something that I have always wanted to see, and perhaps some things I never expected. If I die before I get to make this final dive, I want to be buried at sea.
Phasmid
Mr Invisible
We're all forgotten eventually. I don't care if I'm remembered or not... well... if my memory is useful to someone then woot, but if not then I'll be too dead to care. I'm 19... and I'm looking forward to being an old man who looks like Terry Pratchett... just have the next 40 years or so of waiting.
DallasApple
Depends Upon My Mood..
Yes my legacy matters...I think because of my experience with knowing about the dead people in my "chain"...My father died when I was only 4..Im 40..and he is not forgotten..and I love hearing about how he lived..What he loved..seeing pictures of him. He was a scuba diver.and like to spear fish..also he was a trophy winning diver (from the diving board I mean) he hated that my mother smoked so she would hide it from him LOL) He's just one..I love hearing about my Grandfather who died about 6 months after my father..Little things and big things..Like I know he would pour his cofee in from the cup into the saucer to cool it down and sip it out of the saucer..that he adored my grandmother never once raised his voice to her..that he would run off the teenage boys (litterally) that would come sniffen around the house after his four daughters..that he liked to play poker...His mother (my great grandmother)..who lived to be very old and died maybe a year before him..That she was a strong woman. a smart woman.a business woman..she owned the local 5 and dime..and bought property and built houses on it...( not heard of quite so much back in the 20's adn 30's)
My grandmother who is 94 tells me all kinds of stories and things about the people that came and went before me..And Im going to tell my grandson all about these people too..
I want to be remembered..Im hoping my future generations want to know about me..that they would be curious..I know eventually I'll fade so far into the past I wont be remembered at least not unless someone far down the line is curious and does research..But at least for a little while anyway I care what legacy I leave behind..Who I was and what I was like..The good and the bad..
Im 40...
Love
Dallas
My grandmother who is 94 tells me all kinds of stories and things about the people that came and went before me..And Im going to tell my grandson all about these people too..
I want to be remembered..Im hoping my future generations want to know about me..that they would be curious..I know eventually I'll fade so far into the past I wont be remembered at least not unless someone far down the line is curious and does research..But at least for a little while anyway I care what legacy I leave behind..Who I was and what I was like..The good and the bad..
Im 40...
Love
Dallas
I am hoping to at least have a legacy with my children and any future grandchildren I may have, but I will surely be forgotten in a couple of generations.
Starfish
Please no sarcasm
Your name, probably. But not your influence. You were the biggest influence in your children's lives. Bar none. They are who they are largely because of you. Their children are who they are largely because of their mother, whom you raised. And on and on. You make a difference.
whereismynotecard
Treasure Hunter
Do you mean like do I think about how I will be remembered and how my existance will have changed things that would have remained the same or differently than I caused them to be??
I don't care what happens after I die. I don't aim to change anything for the better or worse if it isn't going to directly involve me while I am living.
And I'm 18 right now, but will be 19 in August.
I don't care what happens after I die. I don't aim to change anything for the better or worse if it isn't going to directly involve me while I am living.
And I'm 18 right now, but will be 19 in August.
blackout
Violet.
If I were to die tomorrow,
many wonderful things would die with me.
It would be a shame.
I want to live out my potential,
and I have not yet done that out in the world.
All of the wonder & knowledge & music & method
that I have to share with others,
will die with me.
And that would be a terrible shame.
For my own sake personally?
I want to LIVE OUT my potential.
but...
my own legacy is not a thing I can ever REALize for myself anyway?
A legacy is REALized by those left behind.
It is for them. Not the deceased.
many wonderful things would die with me.
It would be a shame.
I want to live out my potential,
and I have not yet done that out in the world.
All of the wonder & knowledge & music & method
that I have to share with others,
will die with me.
And that would be a terrible shame.
For my own sake personally?
I want to LIVE OUT my potential.
but...
my own legacy is not a thing I can ever REALize for myself anyway?
A legacy is REALized by those left behind.
It is for them. Not the deceased.
Hope
Princesinha
Yes, very much so. As Starfish pointed out, even if your name is eventually forgotten, you definitely affect those around you, and your behaviour will have a trickle-down effect on succeeding generations. The classic movie It's A Wonderful Life, which I love, gives a great illustration of this. George Bailey had the privilege of seeing what life would have been like if he hadn't existed, and it shook the self-pity and hopelessness right out of him.
Every single person on this planet, no matter how insignificant they may think they are, makes an impact on those around them, and we should never think we won't have a legacy. We all do. And I hope mine is a positive one.
In the 15-35 age range.
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
As I was reading this, I heard a bell ring.
Really, really.