So after seeing comments by Justtristo in chat, and searchingforanswers in the Fear thread, I wanted to get an idea of what kind of legacy you wanted to believe. How you would like to be remembered, and how you think you would be remembered if you dropped dead right now.

For my part, perhaps I'm too easily pleased. If I died today, I hope and think I would leave behind the exact legacy I want to. I'm not a career-oriented guy, and I don't have designs to inspire mass change. I just want to be known as an honest and trustworthy person who was a good friend to those close to me. If people looked back and remembered me fondly, remembered some funny things I did, and thought of me as someone who could be relied upon to help them in times of need and give helpful advice, that seems to me a perfectly excellent legacy to leave.

Over to you, gang.

That I lived a good life
No more than that

I don't mind what happens after I die... I don't care what people think of me really.
When humanity dies out and the eventual end of the universe, none of it will matter... I'm just happy knowing I got to see a minuscule part of the universe and I could probably die happy knowing that.

As the woman who transformed the united states into a syndicate and the herald of a new era as a united planet ready and willing to work together, free of all constraint, without a goal in the world save to meet each other's goals and compromise where they conflict.

That's how I'd like to be remembered... It isn't how I will be, but it is what I'd like to do and be known for

I think if I died right now, i'd be remembered as 'that eccentric chick'. I haven't accomplished anything worth remembering me for yet

I'd like my children and their children's children ad infinitum to be able to make a decent living off a sizable chunk of land that I devoted my entire life too. That's going to be my legacy. We want a happy place, I'm not wasting time looking for it, I'm going to build it.

Great men and women have ruled various parts of this world thousands of times over. I never knew Alexander the Great or Ghengis Khan. Julius Caesar means nothing to me, but I'm sure immediately after he was murdered, a great many people mourned his loss. Eventually, however, the accomplishments he had were stored in the memory of antiquity and who he actually was as an individual -- was forgotten. I guess my point is that no matter how much you want to leave your mark on this world, odds are it will not be appreciated and if it is, it will not be appreciated long. Your loved ones die, your grandchildren forget and the rest of the world just doesn't care.

A friend of mine died 5 years ago. We all loved him. The sad truth is, none of us give him a second thought these days ... and that is not his fault. Life is a limited time engagement and the legacy we THINK we are going to leave behind is just an illusion that we tell ourselves because no one wants to be forgotten.



I'm realistic. All I need when I die is for people to know that I tried, then to mourn me, and then go right back to enjoying their lives.
Bonus: I already know that I'm going to have those things.

I would just like to leave this world a little bit better than when I entered it.

I never give it a moment's thought.

I wanna discover something, but not a disease, cause then my name is a disease and people hate it and curse the name, much better to invent a cure imo.

(October 25, 2011 at 1:32 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: I wanna discover something, but not a disease, cause then my name is a disease and people hate it and curse the name, much better to invent a cure imo.

How about a new sexual position?