Why legacy is not so heavily important to living your life

Legacy is a way of being remembered based upon what you strive to achieve, contributed your efforts to, and committed yourself to.  Your legacy has significance in your life because you want to be remembered by something, but it is not heavily significant to your life because when time passes your commitments and projects will all be forgotten.  Your legacy is not heavily important to your life because over the course of your life you will focus more heavily on other things than your legacy; if your legacy were your primary focus on life, then you would be considered living selfishly.  Having a legacy is not heavily important to your life because for most phases of your life, it is often considered an afterthought and you do not know when you are going to die.  The likelihood of someone obtaining a legacy is very small because over the course of a lifetime, commitments may change and you also may take hiatuses from certain projects and want to strive for different things, therefore making a legacy highly uncertain.  Building a legacy is not so heavily important to living your life because as you become older, you will often tend to engage in philanthropy and want to give back before you leave the world.  Building a legacy is not so heavily important to your life because in your life there will be sacrifices that you have to make to build that legacy.  Your legacy is not excessively important to your because even if you have a finite amount of time, there is still plenty of time to make your mark and influence the world however you intend to influence it.

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