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You can include as many answers as you like.
I’ll submit my own in a reply to this thread tomorrow.
Several leaded windows that I’ve built have been installed in restaurants, libraries, and churches in the northeast US, and I’ve been responsible for repairing and restoring many more. I already know what I’ll be remembered for.
Doing more good than harm.
I teach.
As long as theres a statue involved, I don’t care.
Maybe the guy who young, pretty women just want to have wild, passionate sex with.
The positive difference I’ve made in a few kids lives.
That I was loving, honest, trustworthy, cheerful, dependable and true to my values.
That about sums it up.
I know my family will never think too ill of me so the only thing I really worry about is being thought of as a good friend.
Hopefully being good to my family and friends and with luck doing something that will improve the lives of people (this part I’m still working on)
To Laugh Often and Much
To Win the Respect of Intelligent People
and
Affection of Children
To Earn the Appreciation of Honest Critics
and
Endure the Betrayal of False Friends
To Appreciate Beauty
To Find the Best in Others
To Leave the World a Little Better
Whether by a Healthy Child
A Garden Patch
Or a Redeemed Social Condition
To Know even One Life
Has Breathed easier
Because YOU have Lived
This is to Have SUCCEEDED
-R.W. Emerson
My writing.
I’d like to be at least somewhat known as a composer.
When they build my memorial to memorialize (why else?) my Presidency. I want the future members of the SDMB to remind the Planning Commission that all I want is a simple park bench with my name on it.
I dont think I will be remembered. Like Warren said in About Schmidt
“Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow, it doesn’t matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never existed. What difference has my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all.”
I don’t think my life will affect anyone directly and this bothers me. I guess the best I can hope for is that my presence in the industrialized world as a consumer and producer will help create a more educated, more humane world that people would be glad to bring their kids into. But I dont have any direct influence on anyone as far as I can tell.
Shakespeare said it better:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth V, v
Assuming I am not cremated, I intend to have that as my epitaph.
“World’s strongest billionaire” wouldn’t be bad.
I’d like to be remembered fondly by my kid.
If a poem or two survives me, that would be cool too.
Not dying.
Being nice to my dog most of the time.
For devoting a lot of time and patience in documenting our family history. You would be surprised at how many people just don’t care at all about it. But it will be a written legacy for whomever does have an interest, and every time someone looks at the information for whatever reason, my memory will be evoked.
I’d like to be remembered for making a contribution to, and carrying on the traditions of the great people who invented radio broadcasting in America as we know it.
And I’d like to be remembered by my wife as a great husband, because I am going to die before she does.