LEGACY

LEGACY

It is a common saying, and an undeniable fact that nothing in life is certain, the only certainty is death. Everybody will die someday, and no matter how long you live, you will soon be forgotten once you are gone. As a matter of fact, the only reason some people are still being remembered is because they still breath, they are not dead, but they have nothing for which they should be remembered.

Many have gone hundreds of years ago, some thousands of years ago and they are still remembered today; some for the good they did, and others for the evil they did. Good or evil, no one is remembered for what they have done for themselves, but for what they did for and/or to others. 

Some names are eternally written in the history books, never to be erased, never to be forgotten. Names such as, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright, William Shakespeare, Nelson Mandela, and many more would never be forgotten, not for what they did for themselves, but for what they had done for their people, and the world at large.

Like Vitor Belfort said, "Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I am doing for the next generation." Do something that is beyond you, do something that the next generation will thank you for, do something that will live long even after you are gone. It does not have to be an invention like that of Charles Babbage did, neither does it have to be a discovery like Isaac Newton, being good to every human being you come in contact with is a good enough LEGACY to leave behind.

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John Kamikun

Author, "366 days of wisdom".