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.
I do yeah. It takes like 1/3 of our lives to mature, 1/3 to do something, and the last 1/3 is to try to match the performance of what we were able to achieve before we wither away.
Indifferent.
I’ve been through things that should have killed me.
I’m just happy the ride isn’t over yet.
I wholeheartedly don’t care about any of that. I just go with the flow and give the present moment my full attention.
I have done my best to make the lives of the people around me better, and I have taken joy in life.
What need legacy?
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 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.
When I think of it, I try to look at the bright side that I won’t have to worry about anything after I die. It is still sad though. I hope I have time to do the things I want to do before I die.
I’m just here to drink, love, and have a good time.
Not really. It’s kinda like asking what will we ever do if something happens in outer space that’ll mean the end of our earth and all of the combined wealth of rich people can do anything to help it (they’ll hoard it all anyways and think they’ll see their money afterwards).
Things that have a beginning, have an end, that’s life in general. You live it. You do what you can in it, try not to be the most worst individual and whatnot. The sad part of it all is not being able to carry over everything you’ve learned and those you’ve known. Then again, it won’t matter at all in the next life you’ll be in because everyone you’ve known is long gone into their next journey wherever and whomever.
But as for the positive legacy? Well, the only way we’ll ever do that is if we’re in positions of power, have all the wealth or born well-known with unmatched charisma. It’s just a damn shame we live in a timeline where all of that is horribly misused and abused.
I’m kinda sad that I probably* won’t get to see how this story ends. Do we make it as a species? Do we end up in the Star Trek utopia, or do we wipe ourselves out with our own hubris? But I’m not sad of afraid of dying itself. My legacy will be doing right by my kids and hopefully setting them up to live better lives than I did, and I’m OK with that.
*If I do live long enough to see us wipe ourselves out that will be pretty shit, ngl.
The desire to leave a legacy is really a desire for immortality-lite. I think that if you truly overcome your fear of death, you’ll get over this. I’m more interested in knowing what happens next, and how it all works. I’m slightly salty that I will never get those answers.
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.
Meh, no matter how bad I screw up it will be forgotten
No. That’s a fact of life, being sad about it doesn’t do anything and only harms me. So stop worrying about legacy or level of significance and just try to make the world better any way you can.
