Do you have a legacy?

hmmmm...

A legacy is the positive impact your life has on other people — friends, colleagues, even strangers.
So, to that end, DH and I do.
Lots of volunteering over the decades, the continuing charitable donations, our children and their friends, and grandchildren... all adds up, right?

People still remind me of the plants I have shared with them over the years...
And of phrases they remember me saying...
Those make me smile!
 

I want my legacy to be the love I had for my son and my grandson. I hope that they laugh at me for beyond their own lives. My grandson knows the love I have for my own grandma and I hope my memories of love will always be a part of him.
So. Let love be my legacy.
 
Sure. Am doing several things during my adult lifetime that would make many of my ancestors given consideration, jealous, directly related to life in the modern world. The places and experiences I've had would be treasures by the richest, most powerful elites and kings of old. Many of us spend our days without much effort, eating incredible supermarket varieties of food, a greatly visceral enjoyment, many today just take for granted, hohum. Until the recent era, ordinary people spent much of their days, just dealing with food and meals.

We of this era, are living within a once in historic occurrence of our human race, at this science and technology knee. If humans are still around in a thousand years, this will be the era in ancient history where for better or worse, the most significant humankind change began. Heck, I'm one of the first Earth monkeys able to ski fresh cold dry powder snow like a crazed bouncing rabbit. I visit Earth locations, that if there are large scale alien planetary travel destinations in our galaxy, many of our natural areas would be rated at the top of their listings. We get into our modern vehicles and drive vast distances through spacial dimensions in these machines, much like operating spacecraft in outer space. Stuff many hardly appreciate or bother with.

Yeah, I leave that legacy as being one of the first. And yeah, historians could be writing a bit about me since I actually have considerable life event material, primarily photography and videos, now permanent digital data. Little good to this person now with few years remaining, but worth reflecting on from time to time.

Today, we as adults that have for decades risen to the top of Maslov's Pyramid of Needs, are free to spend our time on a long list of fun, interesting, meaningful activities and life pursuits. For many, whatever is not much a legacy as a celebrity but rather just being part of the beneficial, productive cogs in the machinery of this society despite all the troubles in our modern world. I admit to being selfish in that respect, often just wanting to hide from and ignoring it all, to get my own enjoyable days in.

As a senior that is as in having fun, being happy, inspired and excited living my all too short remaining life. A life, with a prime personal focus on our precious, incredible, organic natural world, as a natural science modestly studied mind, will have much seasonally to look forward to each year, across our temperate zone, Pacific coastal region landscapes. So that may be carved on my tombstone by those I've inspired, my telecom era legacy haha. That guiltily, between skiing, music, dancing, seeing nature, mr dave, had "way way too much fun" for an old guy.
 
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make sure you can hand it all on to a close younger rellie who may be willing sometime in the future to show it all morre widely?
 
Most of the few friends I have left are in my age group, so they will not survive me for long, then I'll have no counterparts left that care one way or another.

I haven't heard from my daughter for a year and a half. I don't know where she is or how to contact her, and since she hasn't contacted me, it's unlikely that she will. That means she will not benefit from anything left to her in my Will.

No brothers, sisters, or grandchildren. My cousins are still here. We talk, but they will not grieve, nor do I expect them to - we get along, but we aren't close.

No, I will leave no legacy. But to be clear, I'm just answering the question matter-of-factly, not with sadness. The way I see it, my life circumstances at this point in time are no better or worse than many others in my age group. I did what I could while I was here.
 
I think I must have done a decent job raising my son. I lost him in a car accident in 1993 but his closet friend still keeps in touch and occasionally visits me, ten hours away.

I think, however, my legacy is my work with horses. Many folks have commented to the positive and have said they “want to come back as a horse in my pasture”, 😇😇

The horse that is on loan to me as a companion for my last remaining horse, is an onery fella. When he first arrived here in December, 2024, he managed to pull the big saddle bags off the four wheeler twice and da—n near bit my shoulder off twice when he clamped down on me from behind. Had I not had five layers of clothes on, it would have been ER time; caught me off guard because that has never happened before.

I have to use a cane to get around, but I work with him as much as I can, using the “long arm of the law” (buggy whip), and always making it a point to not turn my back on him. He has never offered to kick or rear, he just wants to bite. He has come a long way and has shown his very intelligent Arabian brain in a way that my cattle & goat neighbor said “that horse really respects you now”. I felt good about that because it is NOT respect out of fear, it is respect because I am fair, am really good at reading him, and stopping him before his A.D.D. self does something stupid.

Anyway, if I am going to be remembered for anything, it’s going to be handling and caring for horses, which I have owned and trained my own since I was 12 —- 66 years to date🤠🤠
 


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