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Legacy. What is a Legacy?
It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
I want to define what our legacies are. How to achieve a legacy, build one, if you cannot see or control it. Or can you?
People often describe a legacy as "planting seeds in a garden you never get to see". Does that mean you cannot see what your legacy is, or more of what your life holds to reach that legacy?
What is a legacy? Isn't taking your last breath what sums up your legacy? *The girl who lived, grew old, and took her last breathe before resting her head*
Isn't that a legacy?
I am asking these questions to get you to think. To think what makes a legacy a "legacy", what makes it good vs bad, and how we get there if we cannot see or control it.
I believe everything happens for a reason, and that (now I mean to offend no one) God knows what our life and legacy shall be and that this is something we cannot change nor control. Yet who are we to judge whether someone's life was good or bad? Whether they are a legacy worth remembering?
We are humans. In my mind, we cannot lay terms as to what makes it a good legacy if we haven't even lived the rest of our own yet.
Opinions?
submitted by Ashlee G., age 16, The Future
(May 30, 2017 - 12:47 pm)
(May 30, 2017 - 12:47 pm)
I forgive you.*pats* Being humble about others beliefs is a good trait, please never lose it.
(June 1, 2017 - 6:29 pm)
Oh good, that makes everything much better! *Sighs with relief*
(June 2, 2017 - 10:26 am)
I think legacy is all the things you have done in your life that affect other people. This could be good, or bad depending on how you see things. Anybody can see a good thing as bad, and a bad thing as good. It's what people think of when htey think about you or remember you.
(June 2, 2017 - 1:58 pm)
I personally am an atheist, and I find it the idea of an all-powerful being making all our decisions creepy, but I totally get it that other people believe in (a) god(s), however, I will stick to my opwn beliefs.
I think that we have the capability to choose our own fate, and that NOTHING is predetermined, and that we can choose our own fate, because WE are the ones living OUR lives. We can change our legacy. I think that our legacy exists from before we're even born, and that we can change it. A legacy isn't what you leave behind, it is also what you want, what you have, what you love, what you hate. Our legacy is the barest essence of us, the most primal notions implanted in our brains. Our legacy is our deeds, our actions, our words, our causes. Our legacy is what we choose it to be.
Our legacy is our deeds, and our deeds are our monuments.
Do I sound cheesy? Because I feel really cheesy. I definetely have used our too much in this post. You know how when you look at and use a word too much, it starts to look and feel really weird, and you start thinking, why is it spelled this way? How did it come about? Or is it just me?
(June 2, 2017 - 3:04 pm)
Interesting...
I think what a legacy depends on what your beliefs are...I mean it is a really hard questions to answer, but I think that everyone has a legacy, whether you want to call it a story, journy, legacy or all three. I think everyone experiences their own. Some may overlap, but they all happen. Whether it is already planed out or if it happens on its own accord, I don't know.
(June 2, 2017 - 3:13 pm)