What do you think your legacy will be?
2006-08-12 20:05:33 · 6 answers · asked by number 1 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Less then 1%
My legacy, will probably be something like this,
'She could fix anything from toasters to waterguns and make you a pretty darn good sandwich too.'
2006-08-12 20:14:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
10% Lasting Legacy
100% Legacy
2006-08-13 03:08:40 · answer #2 · answered by gravytrain036 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100%
Nobody who lives can fail to touch the lives of others, if only in some small or fleeting way. I know a woman who even now, fifteen long years after the event, wakes up in the night weeping for the child she lost at birth. I know an old fella - he's 92 and counting - who still catches himself calling out for his wife, and she died around 30 years ago. More, this fella was a despatch rider during the war, and can to this day reel of the names of every man who was in his immediate company. Most of them were killed as time went by. But he remembers them.
A lot is going to depend on what you call a lasting legacy. But a child who never made it past the first few critical days of life has left a lasting legacy with her mother. Men who fell in the war, and an ordinary woman who died three decades ago have left a legacy of the most profound remembrance with a man who may now be small and weak but walks with giants in terms of all that he has done with his life. Ask either of these people about what "great" people like Newton or Einstein had to say for themselves and they will simply blink at you "gone out".
And in my turn, I shall (hopefully) never forget the woman who weeps in the night, or the old fella who calls for a lost wife. These are the things that teach us the most important things, I reckon.
It is for certain that everybody who has ever touched my life has contributed in some way to the shaping of it.
The nature of the legacy?
Everything we remember about other people. Everything we learn from them, or from what happens to them.
It's never the so-called "great" people who effect our lives the most meaningfully. They only shape society by contributing to technological and cultural concepts which guide what we do en masse. But for the vast majority of people living in the real world those who leave the real legacies won't walk with the heroes of the masses, they will always be among those who stand on the sidelines among the masses and cheer the heroes as they march on by.
2006-08-13 07:34:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're referring to some sort of an actual contribution to society other than reproduction I would say that it is only a fraction of a percent. Somewhere along the lines of .0001%
Most people are so pathetically consumed with trivialities and nonsensical bullshit that it simply never occurs to them that life has any kind of meaning. This is the reason why athletes are held in higher esteem than intellectuals and the reason why a television holds more value to the average person than art.
It's ******* disgusting if you ask me.
2006-08-13 03:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1%
2006-08-13 03:07:25 · answer #5 · answered by mystic_speculator 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One 500,000th of 1%.
Maybe...
2006-08-13 03:15:42 · answer #6 · answered by krazykritik 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋