MrMicrowave

This was originally a blog post of mine. I do a fair number of these, and I wanted some proper feedback on this one. Just tell me what you felt and how I could've made it better. (Writing wise, seeing as I'm not changing my thoughts on the subject.)
Here goes:


Everybody wants to be remembered.
Death means you'll eventually be forgotten. Do you remember your great, great grandfather or anything that he did? Nobody does. Everything will be forgotten.
Christianity and all other modern religions will be forgotten, Picasso will be forgotten, Van Gogh will be forgotten, Kurt Cobain will be forgotten.



I was thinking. People are part of all kinds of different groups. You have Christians wanting to convert the world, and anarchists wanting to smash the state. Sure, it's about what you feel is right and how you want the world to be. But I can't help but thinking that some of these people join these groups and do these things with the tiny hope that sometime in the future they can tell their grandchildren that they were part of shaping the world as it is. If only for once in their life, they want to do something significant. Something that will be remembered.


But hell, say you in fact do something significant. Say you do something more important than Gandhi. What does it really matter when our existence really is just as long as the blink of an eye in the universe?
Who will care that you united the world as one when the world is just a thing of the past? A memory that nobody holds.


It's meaningless. But still, people do want to be remembered. Not forever, but as long as possible. I suppose it gives a certain feeling that death is not the end of everything about you and what you stood for.
I also see it as a reason to have children. They can carry on your memory, and hopefully pass it on to their children. And maybe, if you're lucky, they will pass it on to their children. Instead of being the nothing that you in reality are, you're a memory. A beautiful, lifelike memory.

I don't want to die. I want to live forever. I want to change the world, and know that when I die people will still remember me. I can imagine nothing more horrifying that being alone on your deathbed, waiting to die and knowing that it's truly the end.

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Prof

If I think about this topic very much, which, in fact, I don't, I guess I wouldn't worry about being remembered. Does a butterfly remember being a caterpillar? For me, death is just the start of a great adventure. IF there is nothing, then I'll neither know nor care, BUT, if there is something, and I believe that there is, what I've done is left the caterpillar stage.

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jellyfish

I liked this but thought it jumped around a little bit. Maybe start with all the things people do in an effort to be remembered, then go to why, and then to why you think it's meaningless.

To quote a very old saying, "yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery, today is a gift - that's why they call it the present." Live for now.

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jellyfish

just another day in paradise