Legacy & Why it is Important to Consider.


Legacy is an important topic mentioned when discussing death. Death is inevitably the end for everything we do on planet earth. Throughout the course of our life we carry this burden on our shoulders regarding what we want to be recognized and looked as when we die, this leads us to make death a huge topic and portion of our life. I’m not saying it is not, but we make it bigger than it must be without the need for it to be such a big portion of our life. This idealism of a legacy is important because it is more than just what we want to be remembered as because eventually a legacy will be forgotten. Your legacy most likely won’t be remembered by everyone except a handful of close people or family but this is important for what I am about to say. A legacy is not just about people remembering you for who you are, the most valuable part of a legacy is the values and goals behind someone’s legacy. If you get forgotten but the values behind your legacy lives on, then you have accomplished your goal on earth regarding the values behind your legacy. Once you are free from the pressure of being greater than you are at your peak, you will die and won’t have to worry about that. You may possibly be forgotten but if your values live on in someone else, if you manage to influence or impact someone else based on your motives then you have completed the main thing you set out to do which is to get your legacy and every component behind it to be remembered and to create inspiration. Your legacy (what you want to leave behind) will live on and inspire people who might not even know who you are and that is an extreme possibility. One example is the company Apple, the new generation of kids and teens probably won’t know who Steve Jobs was, but they will know what an iPhone is. The important and usable knowledge can be used without knowing who created it. Hand sanitation is important in daily life but a common man person has no idea who made sanitation.
Legacy is a very important thing to consider and is not something to be put to the side as something that will eventually be forgotten and seem as a waste of time & effort.

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