Legacy · 10:35pm Mar 31st, 2015
I've been thinking a lot about death. 12/19/11. A little over three years ago my mom died. During the wake, I saw so many people come to see her one last time. Fellow teachers, old work friends from Cingular. At least a dozen of her math students showed up. One girl even said that she was going to be a math teacher because of my mom. She made an impact on so many lives. That was her legacy. She was only 46.
I wonder what my legacy will be. Who will show to my funeral when I eventually die? Will I be leaving a wife? Kids? What will I have done? That question has been pestering me for a long time now. Will I have touched as many lives as her? Maybe I'll just fade away like so many other people. Like my grandfather and grandmother. Wonderful people, but only remembered by their children and grandchildren. They had no legacy, nothing to be remembered for. I find it much more likely that I will be forgotten.
I've had a lot on my mind lately and I needed to get this down.