A legacy is something that we leave behind for our peers to help better their future. I believe that we all create our legacy's without trying. Every person’s legacy is different, but they are based off of the same things: past, present, and future. We take the knowledge that we have obtained from our past experiences, good and bad, and use those to help us make difficult decisions in the present. Our mistakes and achievements are left behind to our friends and family in hope that they will have a better future and learn and thrive off of our failures and gains.
I want people to look back on my life in one hundred years and think that they want to live their life as I did. I want to be remembered as a kind, noble, and hardworking person who always put others needs before her own. I want to be the person that sets an example for everyone. Your life’s legacy does not have to be based off of all the good things that have happened in your lifetime. It should
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If you do not leave behind a legacy all your life's achievements and mistakes will be forgotten.
Susan V. Bosaks Legacy Project stated:
Toward the end of life, we must understand that we must give to others, so that when we leave this world we are what we have been given, have created, and have passed on.
I wish to give to others all the knowledge I have attained from my past experiences to help mold the future destinies of my peers and descendants. Being remembered as an advocate who had strong, forceful opinions on multifarious topics is very important to me and I hope that my legacy encourages others to follow their dreams even if someone is pressuring them not to. My goal in life is to live day by day and to always rely on my wisdom and heart to make the right choices in order to better my future as well as
When I hear the word “legacy,” I often feel intimidated because I instinctively compare myself with those who have accomplished something significant. In fact, I get the impression that I am disadvantaged, or strictly speaking, useless, compared to those who are leaders. I feel that my fate prevents me from meeting new opportunities, which ultimately impedes me from making great accomplishments. However, after reading “Home of the Free” by Wendell Berry, I am forced to riffle through my life span and smile at the great accomplishments that I, as a “disadvantaged” kid, have taken pride in. Berry’s thesis can be summarized by a quote from the famous existentialist Friedrich Nietzsche, who wrote, “If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.” Nietzsche establishes the notion that, in life, we should not avoid “the necessary work of human life” and only seek pleasure and peace. This notion, which is what comprises Berry’s concept of “satisfaction,” makes me ponder everything in life that can make existence prove worthwhile.
What do the following words or phrases have in common: “the last departure,”, “final curtain,” “the end,” “darkness,” “eternal sleep”, “sweet release,” “afterlife,” and “passing over”? All, whether grim or optimistic, are synonymous with death. Death is a shared human experience. Regardless of age, gender, race, religion, health, wealth, or nationality, it is both an idea and an experience that every individual eventually must confront in the loss of others and finally face the reality of our own. Whether you first encounter it in the loss of a pet, a friend, a family member, a neighbor, a pop culture icon, or a valued community member, it can leave you feeling numb, empty, and shattered inside. But, the world keeps turning and life continues. The late Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers and of Pixar Animation Studios, in his 2005 speech to the graduating class at Stanford, acknowledged death’s great power by calling it “the single best invention of Life” and “Life’s great change agent.” How, in all its finality and accompanying sadness, can death be good? As a destination, what does it have to teach us about the journey?
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
“To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.” (Susan B. Anthony)
It’s the triumphs as well as the defeats, that I will remember most about my life when I look back in thirty years. If I can look back and say, “I didn’t think I could ever accomplish this, but I gave it my all.” Pursuing the next challenge along with being a well-rounded, compassionate person will allow me to consider my life a success in thirty years. Nothing in my life emulates this attitude towards what I will consider a success, in terms of pushing my limits, in thirty years, than my current pursuit of collegiate level sports.
One thing that is unfortunate about departing this life is the lost vivacity that a person works to expand since the day they were born.
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
Many people get to the end of their lives and only then do they realize what they have missed. They realize that there is something that they just did not do in life and they try to do that thing before life's end.
Later in life when I have a job of my own I hope to become like my grandfather and get a job and make it my life. Also I hope that once I find my goal that nothing will stop like the miners in Crown of Dust.
I want to be remember as contributor to the views and goal of the Dallas Police Department. My hope is that people consider me as a Police Officer of good character, teachable, team player and always striving to serve my community with Legitimacy.
Death is the end. Once you die there is nothing more you can do to change the world. I am here to tell you that those beginning sentences are false. Once you die there is something you can do to change the world. Organ donation can affect tons of lives just from parts of your body once you are not living anymore creating a lasting impact.
Completing my education will bring extreme change to my Native American community. Everyday I pray that with my degree in Environmental Studies will make a positive impact on my Native homelands. Living on two reservations in the past years, I have seen the trouble with the water and the excessive litter on the precious land. Ten years from now I want to be able to say that I made a difference and helped solved those water and litter problems going on in my communities. That is just the beginning. After I bring change to my communities I will help other Native American communities and beyond with their problems. My lifelong goal is to be the best problem solver. My lifelong goal is to fulfill the wishes my grandparents and great grandparents
...th this single life that I have been given. I am going to touch as many other lives as I possibly can. The moments we spend leading others to find their own personal definitions of happiness are worth so much more than ours alone. Sometimes to see the beauty and meaning in the small things, we must rid ourselves of all the "fluff' that threatens to distract us. Time is too precious and our gifts, as leaders, too valuable to be wasted on things that do not touch our hearts.
One should not view ones life as diminished simply because it is in its final chapter. One should fight against going out quietly and believing you could have done better. Men who live their life with passion and zeal also realize at the end that maybe they spent too much time grieving or worrying unnecessarily about things that they could not change and perhaps they should have tried to attain even more from...
Have you ever pondered your death? At least at some point in our lives everyone has done so. But with the thought of death comes the thought of what you want to accomplish and what you have already accomplished. When I think of dying, I think of the things that I want to do the most, most of the time they have nothing to do with me as a whole. My main goal before I die is to see the happiness that I have brought to others through my actions. I want to make sure that I leave my mark on those whose lives I have touched, in order to do so I have to start somewhere with my goals. Three things that I want to accomplish before I die are having a family, travel the world and create a charity foundation.