Answering Quin

Thu., August 7, 04:07 PM

My friend, Quin, posed the following:

Simple question… when you have thrown off this mortal coil… what do you want to have as the thing you are remembered for?

I find myself remembering an old quote: “In two words: im possible.” There is so much explaining you have to do before you get even close to a definitive answer. What is a goal? To you it may be an end; to me, it’s a process.

I think most of us would like to improve the world in some way. At the moment, I am not particularly hopeful of being able to do that. It seems to be that, for every person who is trying to make things better, there are ten either actively pulling it down, or else with the attitude, “go ahead, do what you want, just don’t expect any help from me.”

For most of the world, I guess it doesn’t much matter what anyone remembers of me. For my family, my friends, just remember I loved you. Everything else is just explanation.



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