How Will People Remember You???

Question

I don't want the usual "She was a good mother, great housekeeper, nice person."

I want to know how you will be remembered for what you have done in your life. What would history find great about you?

Answer 1

I have an extrememly loud laugh and voice and huge curly dark hair that looks like a fro. Sadly that is how I'll be remembered

Answer 2

Depends on the people doing the remembering. Some will remember the young singer who had a big career ahead of her and blew it by becoming an addict. Some will remember a young mother who lost her first child due to her addictions. Some will remember a sad looking girl at rehab who fought her demons with valor. Some will remember a mentor who helped them with their addiction. A few will remember a stranger who smiled sincerely at them. Some only know the crazy kayaking woman. Some only read my words on a screen and forget them before they read the next answer. The patients I help to save in my job as a surgical tech will not remember me at all, but a stranger that was given CPR will remember me for the rest of his life. The homeless at the shelter where I volunteer will remember me for my kindness and humor. The AIDS patients at the ward I visit will remember my touch. Those admitted to my circle of friends will remember a passionate woman who dared to look beyond the mortal veil of fear and become something more than ppl expected. My children will remember a mother who spent time everyday with them..one on one and who loved them into life and was always willing to put their needs ahead of what other ppl thought. My husband will remember a woman who fought: addictions, cancer, ignorance, fear, hatred, guilt all within herself and found the key to real unconditional forgiveness and love and shared it freely with no strings attached. I hope that I will be remembered as someone who really lived and refused to give in to fear.

As for history, I will be forgotten and that suits me best. I'm not out to change the world, just my world.

Answer 3

I'll bet nothing. Who will remember me but my family? I've done good deeds, given to charity, loved my friends whole-heartedly, but unless I were an inventor or famous painter, I should not be remembered by anyone whom I didn't love, or who had love for me.

I'd like if this were not the case, of course, but then it really doesn't matter that I am not a famous person, or an actress, or a Mother Teresa. I feel complete, and I feel like a part of this world. That's good enough for me.

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Answer 4

Mr. Duchovny,
A man with foul habits. A lonely man who embraced his solitude with a torn heart. One who stood for Jesus Christ, and yet was such a notorious sinner. Underneath the calm, easy-going, even loving and giving nature, a war raged between heaven and hell, life and death, good deeds and utter hatred for whoever the enemy he percieved he had.

He convinced many of his faith in God though it was often painful to hear of it for many, yet he also convinced them of his human sinful side, which was equally as painful to hear of.

"I want to know how you will be remembered for what you have done in your life. What would history find great about you?"
He loved God more than the life he had, literally.

Answer 5

hmmm I don't know that history would find anything "great" about me. I'd like to be remembered as someone who cared and loved without fear....I'd also hope to be remembered as someone who made a difference...one person at a time.

Answer 6

I have no idea how people will remember me. I can't predict what people might think in the future. As for history.....I don't think it would have anything significant to say unless I did something to warrant it. Don't know if this really answers your question but it's how I feel and it's my honest answer.

Answer 7

I don't care about how History reads me: so long as my daughter finds me helpful to have around, I'm ok.

Although it would be nice to be remembered as a man who looked awfully young for 257...

Answer 8

I want to remebered by individual people, history will probably not make any note of me. As long as we leave our mark on one person's heart our life was worth living.

Answer 9

Nothing too significant I'm afraid. i haven't really done all that much with my life. I'd like there to be more to me than what there is, I'm still young. (21) I have a lot of life left to live, I hope.

Answer 10

I'm not dead yet. I still have time to make my mark. For now, I will have to settle for brilliant, talented, writer, thinker, great cook, good mom, excellent wife, hot lover, cheerful, loving, a tad naughty, baudy, comedic, fun, awesome friend and well-read. How about you? Not fair that you didn't give us your eulogic footprint.