What is Your Legacy?

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flyinghorse

Woodpecker
If you were to die what would you like to be remembered for?

Would you like to be remembered for you career, inventions, children, your artwork, your friends, your money, your wife, the women you were with, the places you saw?

What is you legacy from life?
 
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MusicForThePiano

Pelican
Hopefully as much sheet music and compositions I leave behind for others who are as dedicated to performance and skill development as a musician. Eventually, children. I also plan on building some log cabins over the next few years. That's it really. Just cultivate what is important to you, in what gives you a greater connection to God and your surroundings, there is no peace like it. Everything else to me is a whirlwind that I can't stand after enough time.
 
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deneuk

Sparrow
flyinghorse said:
deneuk said:
Honesty and looking after people in need.
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Do you work for a charity?
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No I don't work for charity, I do volunteer for the boy scouts whenever I have the time which mainly means lending out my truck driving them or their stuff around for the planned activities. Also I donate to them, the local voluntary fire fighters and football/soccer club annually.

That was regarding to charity, other than that I try to be as helpful as I can in life without being taken advantage of.
 
Aizen

Aizen

Kingfisher
Orthodox
flyinghorse said:
Zagor said:
What is legacy? Everything fades and gets forgotten with time.
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I agree in parts to your Nihilism.

We certainly cant all be Plato or Nietzsche
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I wouldn't necessarily call it nihilism, it's just the fact that in a million or so years, 99% of human history will be forgotten.

It's much more important to focus on your current quality of life, and that the next generation (your kin). Anything beyond that would have to be works of art and literature, but it would have to be done knowing that, in time, it will fade as well.

Doing things for the "sake of legacy" seems more of an ego trip than it does an attempt to further the human race. Yes, I eventually hope to have one of those Greek statues molded after me, but I recognize it more of a bucket list item than an attempt to extend my identity indefinitely.
 
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