If You Died ...

Published on May 30, 2004 By gothic impulse In Philosophy

If you died tomorrow, what would you like to be remembered for?

Would it be your wealth ..your wit ...your compassion ?

What is the most important thing to you ...family ...business ...money ...power ?

With what do you measure your success?

This is something i have thought about and i know that I would like to be remembered as someone who cared ..someone who did what they could ( no matter how small ) to help others.

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded."

This is my favourite quote and one I try to live by. Simple really.

I would be interested to hear what others would like to be remembered for.

Jess

Comments

Poetmom99

on May 30, 2004

Pretty much the same as you....as someone who cared about others, tried to make the world a better place, and who loved--deeply and completely.

Cann1bal

on May 30, 2004

If I die tomorrow, what would I like to be remembered for...
That I loved you to the best of my ability as a human being, that I made you smile when you were down and made you laugh until your stomach hurt. That I made your life (Jessica) the best that it could be.

What is teh most important thing to me?...
Simple. You.

What is the measure of my success?
Every smile and every laugh I give you.

Pretty simple huh.

Thomas

OckhamsRazor

on May 30, 2004

I would like to be remembered as someone who gave cause to think critically and fearlessly. To be remembered as having done that humorously is icing on the cake.

Sally jacobs

on May 31, 2004

Ok, this give me something to think about....I just read what Thomas wrote...awwww...so lucky! Anyway back on topic, that quote summed it up pretty well, but I will try some variety, I'd like to be remembered for making people smile, and just basically making those close to me happy. The most important thing to me is family, without a doubt. Other people come and go, but I know they will be there for me no matter what. The measure of my success, hmmm, how happy I am, if I smile everyday, I'm doing something right

MasonM

on May 31, 2004

I would like to be remembered as someone who always treated others with respect, understanding, and compassion. Also as someone who lived his life without caving in to the pressures of modern society.

gothic impulse

on May 31, 2004

These wonderful replies remind me why I never give up on people.

Just when I think humanity is going to hell, I find people like you to restore my faith in human nature.

TY for your replies.

Jess

mikimouse

on May 31, 2004

that mikimouse was a person who knew the truth and knew reality, and that he was right.

gothic impulse

on May 31, 2004

Miki ...that's good but there are many variables on truth.

And many ways of being right.

I agree with most of that comment but I myself would add ..have the courage and grace to admit when I'm wrong.

But it is good to know you have such conviction.

Jess

illusivedreamer

on Jun 01, 2004

Jess, what a great article, one in which many have often pondered the answer over time in their lives. I know the answer, as I have been faced with the question on many occasions, since I had been told several months ago the doctors really have their hands tied as to what they can now do for me, it is something I believe has already been answered for me.
I have been told by others that I will be remembered for all of the things I thought stood out in me most for my life. The things that I felt in my heart would be remembered, qualities that are exactly as they should be. The ability to always extend everything about myself that is positive, to others. Never faultering in my ability to be the answer to another persons needs. That is what I want to be remembered for and there is absolutly NO doubt, that IS what I will be remembered for most, above all else.

BTW Jess, thank you so much for adding me to your list!!! That makes my day even better then it was just a jinute ago, and it already is a really awesome day!

That I loved you to the best of my ability as a human being, that I made you smile when you were down and made you laugh until your stomach hurt. That I made your life (Jessica) the best that it could be.

Simple. You.

Every smile and every laugh I give you.

UNBELIEVABLE!!! Jesse, Thomas is a true blessing for you and one that I hope will be there always!!!!!!

Shulamite

on Jun 01, 2004

Ooooh... good topic.

I'd like to be remembered for making people feel loved and respected and important.

I'd like to be remembered for wisdom, sincerity, and speaking the truth. (Incidently, I don't believe in post-modernism myself, Jess. Truth is imutable or else its opinion.)

I'd also like to be remembered as a friend and someone who laughs a lot; someone who makes others laugh a lot. Someone who deeply cares for others' feelings, opinions, cares, and pain but also about seeing them do what is right. And hopefully, someone who did what was required of her.

kingbee

on Jun 02, 2004

i set up a website a couple years ago that included a picture of me as a 2-year-old, naked (but tastefully facing away from the camera) smiling into a mirror while doing a fairly good representation of a little goof brushing his teeth. i used to hate the pic because my mother would invariably display it to any girl i was foolish enough to bring within viewing range. eventually i wised up and stopped doing that and about 10 years ago, my mother sent me the only print in existence. i scanned it and added this thought-balloon caption:

i want to grow up to be the guy who make em regret they invented the internet

thatll still work when im gone

Dune

on Jun 03, 2004

it's a question that makes you stop and think - but now that I've thought about it, I'm not sure I care too much about being remembered when I'm dead. if the bitter truth be known, I wish people were remembered more often when they're alive, but that's just a little kerouac grumble about our world, and is a complete digression.

I just hope I don't remember my life when I die - I mean, I don't know what happens when we close our eyes on this world for the last time, but I'm hoping you don't go to a worse place and remember the place you just left as being better - irgh, i think I got out of the wrong side of bed this morning!

Sorry, I'm not really playing the game - Ok, when I die, I want to be remembered as the girl who never meant any harm.

Nebraskawoman

on Jun 04, 2004

I love this question but don't really know how to answer it. I do have an article with a poem that makes you think along the same lines.
It's right here.
Link

I hope I got the link right. Sorry if I didn't.

Nebraskawoman

on Jun 04, 2004

wow. I did get the link right.

Nebraskawoman

on Jun 04, 2004

wow. I did get the link right.

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