What makes you think you can’t leave a significant positive legacy?
You can get involved with your neighbors. Invest in your local community. Adopt an orphan or volunteer at a women’s shelter.
There’s a million things you can do to make a significant impact. Every person you invest in is another person who can go and invest in others.
This idea that anything that’s below the national or worldwide level isn’t significant is a cancer on society.
There are people who lived hundreds of years ago who, sure, you’ll probably have never heard of if you don’t live in the same area as me, but who have had huge impact on the community. The same is true for where you live. I promise you.
Bring your eyes down, and look to make your legacy local. I promise you it’s possible. And I promise you that it’s significant.
No. I’m here while I’m here, and I do my best to help people, when I can and am capable anyways.
There’s no stopping the clock, everyone has their time…
Lol, I’m probably dead in 30 years or less. I’m over half way there because of a major health condition I lost the genetic lottery on. It is what it is. I like to think I’ve raised a child capable of empathy, that’s all I can do.
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I don’t care. Our civilization will collapse, the earth will become uninhabitable and the universe will die at some point. So whatever we leave behind ultimately doesn’t matter anyway. I try to make life as enjoyable as possible for myself and my GF and try to be a positive influence for my friends, family, colleagues and neighbourhood. When it’s over, it’s over and I’m not going to worry about what I’m leaving behind. I’m an insignificant speck in the grand scheme of things and I’m just fine with that.
No kids and no legacy to worry about sounds quite good to me actually.
I don’t care about leaving a legacy. I’m here to enjoy myself as much as possible in this very fucked up world.
I may have, at one point. Then I realized that the only reason anyone leaves a ‘positive legacy’ is because they actively sought to paint themselves that way. In other words, they managed to trick you and everyone else into thinking that it was their singular will that manifested all of this positivity.
Positive legacies are not the product of any one person, they are a collective effort, and the collective shares both the credit and the spoils.
You have to keep in mind, what is a positive legacy? Is it simply being remembered? No, because I’ve surely planted many trees (I drop seeds where I go) — will anyone remember the man who dropped the seeds?
When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.
— God, Futurama
It’s not that hard to leave a significant positive legacy. It only needs to be person-sized. Did you have one pretty good child? Congratulations, you did it! Did you have, like, three good friends? Give yourself a big ol’ check.
These aren’t easy, but they aren’t in general un-do-able.
Every. Damned. Day.
Just trying to be a good person is pretty tough sometimes. People take advantage. It sucks.
None of us individually truly leave a lasting legacy. Maybe some get to have their name repeated a little longer than others but that’s about it.
Everything that’s happened in human history happened because of communities of people … they might have had a leader but even the leader wouldn’t have made any of it happen without large groups of people. And every single one of those people had a small part to play in making it all happen.
We all have a small part to play during our lives and together all our small parts add up to great things.
I’m more upset about everything that’s going to happen in the far future that I won’t get to see
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It helps me to think about it like this:
The shittier the world’s circumstances, the brighter and longer a single good deed will shine.
I will leave a positive legacy, but I’m not concerned when I’m forgotten by time. I’ve come to terms with the fact that life is for the living, and I’m doing my part to try and make the world a better place for future generations.
I’m just here to drink, love, and have a good time.
Not really. It would be cool to leave a mark on the world, but once I’m dead, I won’t be around to care.
