Do you want to be remembered, and if so by how many people? Family, friends, your neighbors, your associates, your country, the world? Are you basically a private person or do you long to leave some sort of mark in a public sense? Perhaps if you have children do you see them as your biggest legacy? But what if you don’t? Do you yearn to leave something of yourself that people will remember you by?
Is it art, is it a great invention? How about a novel or a book? Perhaps you are an architect and dream to leave beautiful buildings behind, or do you want to leave your mark in politics, making magnificent changes in the social order? Do you want to be well known or just known well? Do you think about leaving a legacy…is it even important to you? Or would you rather vanish into thin air the minute the air leaves your lungs, and your ashes scattered to the wind, forgotten entirely?
Do we not all want to be remembered, by someone, for something?
And if you answered yes to any of these questions…do you know exactly what you would like your legacy to be? Have you made your mark already? Can you picture the end result? Does it look like you are on track now?
In exactly two months I will be forty-two years old.
And so a new day begins...
I do want to leave something in this earth when i leave it someday. I do consider my daughter Aleina as my biggest legacy. She is half my body and half the body of somebody I love. But not only is she half my body, she grew in me. I was successfully able to bring her into this world a healthy person with a working heart, lungs, brain and other vital organs. But what's even more amazing and what really ties the knot of Aleina being my biggest legacy is the fact that she has so much of my personality and traits in her that help make up the person she is. I see that she has so much of her father in her as well. And Jimmy and i are pretty opposite in many things so Aleina is, in a way, a balance of him and myself then toss in her own little spirit that's unique to mine and Jimmy's and there is my biggest legacy.
But for me personally if i knew i was going to leave this place soon i would want to leave something of myself or something important to me with special people in my life. I wouldn't need to make an international fuss - just leaving some personal things with people i love would do for me. The point: i would want to leave something in this earth. I could have parts of me here for many many years because Aleina might have a child someday, and that child may have a child etc....
There is some comfort in knowing you will be remembered when you're gone, for me anyway.
And even if you're not remembered you're still there through your offspring.