What have you done in your life to help others, and will it be remembered?
(I often wonder, what could I do for, or offer the future generations. Isn't that what life is about? Yes, we should live our own life to the fullest, but shouldn't we also work on the future? Isn't helping people NOW a good start?
Otherwise, what was our purpose here? We gain experience, and wisdom, but do not pas it on somehow? What a serious loss.)
2006-09-30 11:51:52 · 15 answers · asked by Life after 45 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Anything I leave behind I would hope, would point the way to Jesus Christ. That is why my life is about; knowing Him, and making Him known.
2006-09-30 11:54:20 · answer #1 · answered by Esther 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Thank you for your question. There is great wisdom in what you ask.
I think there will not be any great books written about my life or stories told. I think only a very select few will know about me and who I was after I am gone.
But while I have been here I have tried to do the best I could. I have tried to treat all with respect and dignity. I have tried to teach every chance I got. You feed another for day if you give them a fish. You feed another for a lifetime if you teach them how to fish.
I have saved a life, I protect all whenever I can, I encourage any whenever I can. I really don't know very much but I keep trying to learn as much as I can.
Some wise person once said, we make progress by letting others stand on our shoulders so they can see farther than we can.
Another wise person once said, if the mountain will not come to me I will go to the mountain.
These are a few of the things I have tried to do.
Siddhartha have been my guide.
Have fun but be safe!
2006-09-30 19:23:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would leave behind...
* Friends, and family, that I have helped in various ways (including helping them keep their homes, achieve their dreams, help them become who they are and want to be).
* A family that believes in doing good in the world, and would hopefully continue to help others.
* Contributions to charities that help make the world a better place.
* Strangers or acquaintances that I've helped along the way.
* Smiles that I've created in someone's day that was having an average to worse day.
Do these things help mankind? I would hope so. The more we spread a little love and happiness, that ripples out into the world in a positive way.
2006-09-30 19:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by Kimberley Mc 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is more of an issue of what I am here for. Mankind is temporary. The plasmic energy that makes up my energy force or soul so to speak will always be here. But if I were to talk in physical terms I would say everytime I protected the lesser woul always be remembered
2006-09-30 18:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by Piercingmoon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe just a few honest heartfelt answers to these questions. If mankind had given me more of a chance to do something, maybe I would feel A need to leave more. Maybe I will leave a 9 acre park, if I can aford the taxes. Maybe not. Write about what ou have learned and what you know. Maybe somebody 50 years from now finds and likes it. Maybe its great, maybe its nothing. Share what you have though. I don't owe mankind anything. Maybe it owes me something.
2006-09-30 18:57:03 · answer #5 · answered by kurticus1024 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I painted about 90.000, address numbers on curbs so the ambulance drivers especially could find homes at night well. in the local paper there was an articule saying the responce time of ambulances are so quick now in that ONE country that its saveing over a hundred lifes a year!I kept painting the numbers after so many people told me how the ambulance driver missed there home.how if they might have gone ahead and stoped there loved one might not have died. i tell people at there door the cure for osteoarthritis. to simply stop eating junks foods and eat only whole foods. i have called a state legislator friend who i sudjsted two ideas and he made them in to laws. the list goes on. i care. because the spirit of god is welcome in my heart, though we are not perfect we should try to make a little difference in this world. it all depends on the individual in if and how they express there humanity
2006-09-30 19:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would donate my internal organs liver, kidney, etc...... Let my family sell my valuables and donate it to charity. I always give to charity anyways so it wouldn't make me any different , i love to give. Do unto others as you would love them do to you and its better to give than to receive. the greatest gift of all is giving because you get blessed, you get more blessings when you give especially from the heart.
2006-09-30 18:59:36 · answer #7 · answered by kerri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My loving daughter who is so kind and helps everyone she can.
I tried to raise my children not to be cruel, to help others, to be giving and generous, and to love one another. I think I succeeded.
2006-09-30 18:58:40 · answer #8 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't leave much behind in the grand scheme of things. We can't all be heroes, after all.
2006-09-30 19:02:46 · answer #9 · answered by Incorrectly Political 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only the things and action that you do when you was alive.
2006-09-30 18:56:35 · answer #10 · answered by Chara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋