Tuesday 5 April 2011

What will be your legacy?

What about you?

If death is a certainty, sorry to start on a sober note but it is certain, then how will you be remembered when you're gone? People usually want to leave their mark on the world; many people have in the past. Elvis Presley is remembered as changing the world of music, Roger Bannister for changing the world of sport and Martin Luther King Jr for changing the world of politics forever. But what about you?

For some there are records to be re-written, for others business empires to be built, maybe fortunes to be made or awards to be won and new discoveries to be made. But again what about you?

Records will be broken, empires and wealth will fall, fortunes can be won or lost and newer and more exciting discoveries will be made - so what about you?

A legacy is purely something that is handed down, usually from generation to generation, so the question is what can we hand down? Or maybe put in a better phrase, "how can we be significant to another?"

Today's blog thought doesn't have a clever twist or message and isn't a short preach or bible study and I am not even going to try and answer my own question but to simply ask it one more time.

How will you be remembered? What will you pass on? How can you be significant to another?

What about you?