A journey with a friend home, a journey all alone,
Last night at camp site, a time for conversation.
A little supper under the stars, light from a fire,
Unusual talk from the lips of a friend, saying something.
He wanted to leave his mark on the world, on a friend he would,
He was to go away that night, a friend by his side.
That started a friend thinking, he wanted to be remembered,
He needed to make his wife and family understand, for himself.
Afraid that he would be forgotten, so afraid, who would remember his name,
A project with his name on it, wood tables with only his Initials would be.
One hundred years later a single worn piece of furniture many would see,
His initials would be, his name never known, he wanted to be remembered.
Keith Garrett
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One reason I self published a cartoon book and ready for 3 more is to be remembered, leave some legacy beyond just who I was. I think my kids will probably use the pages of my books to start the Bar-B-Q.
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Wow! powerful. We try so hard to be remembered, God help us to leave the right marks
Oblivion! Many of us are obsessed with it. The thing is to live a life as right as you can. Present will give you this happiness of being alive, future can not guarantee the happiness of being remembered. You would not be there to feel, so what is the meaning?
Thanks again
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars. Just to quote this beautiful line 🙂
Thanks so much