From the time that you are born to the time that you die you have a finite amount of time to achieve something in your life that means something. Some of us have children, some of us have incredible careers, and some of us muddle through, struggling to make it to the end. How will any one of us be remembered after we no longer exist on this planet.
I have a feeling that I won't have a legacy to be remembered by. I can't have children, I am trying to adopt a child but I am not getting any younger, and the possibility of that happening is starting to drift further and further away. That scares me a bit.
My footprint in society is small, it's basically only in my surrounding area, the people I meet and the work I do are barely affected with my presence. I have helped out others and tried to give selfless advice when my friends and family reach out, I think in some small part it has actually helped make some people's life better. Occasionally, I have gotten a "thank you so much, if you hadn't opened my eyes to that option we would have been screwed."
My mother was the queen of great advice and clever ideas, and I think I get a lot of that from her, she was a great influence in my life. She has passed and eventually she will be forgotten as the wheel of time slowly churns forward.
I remember reading somewhere that once you put something on the internet it is there forever, and your chances of removing it are almost impossible, so be very careful what you put online.
A thought occurred to me that if I had a really good idea or thought in my head that this would be the best medium to use to get it out there, permanently.
Obviously some or most of my thoughts are rubbish, the people who have been reading them can attest to this fact. But maybe one or two things I have mentioned have hit home and possibly made you realize something that you didn't know before and has helped you out since you read it. That's my hope anyway.
My thoughts and ideas won't die with me when my time comes, as it does for us all. They will continue to exist forever in the form of data on the world wide web, and maybe way in the future someone will stumble upon them and gain some insight, or just have a really good laugh.
In any case, part of me will live on forever, and that gives me a tiny bit of peace.
Scott Goerz
