If you want to be remembered forever do something to be remembered for. If you want to remembered by the ines you care most for be there for them and make every moment you can count.
Do one or the other and you will never be forgotten.
I know stories of my great great grandparents and they are still remembered in our family because like I we ask tell people not just our lifes but we also ask people about their lifes and of the people they know or knew.
My great great grandmother when she was 10yrs old sang for Queen Victoria. She was playing with friends on the street and singing church hymns when the queen drove by heard her sing and told her to go home wash up and put on her nicest clothes and bring your mother to the palace.
My Great great grandmother did that and she sang for the queen of England. She sang a few hymns and the queen said she was really talented.
When she became my grandmother's grandmother she would hear the kids sing silly kid songs and she stop them and say is this the song you want to sing for the Queen? And she made them sing hymns. Lol
And I know this because I sat there and listen to my grandmother tell stories.
Ask people their stories ask them all sorts of things like how did your parents meet? How did their parents meet? Ask what was their first house/apartment like? Who was their best friend growing up. Ask one question than go to the next. And when you have kids of your own tell them all the stories you know. So you and the people in your stories will live on.
Being remembered isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’m sure many people would be upset to know how history remembers them, especially those things it gets wrong. Even those who are “remembered” long after death often aren’t really remembered. Being remembered doesn’t mean being loved or appreciated. Those deeds you do that ripple through the world and shape people, and by doing shape every person they ever interact with and on and on through time- this is the true memory of society. The things we do that no one will ever know about will often endure further and impact more than having a whole country named for you. Once you become a “symbol” you have no idea that people will carry out in your name. Just be the best you that you can and try and put good into the world, the mountains will fall before that echo of you fades from the earth.
the fear of being forgotten is one of the most irrational fears ever. why? bc there is nothing you can do about it. even if you cure cancer, you WILL be forgotten one day bc mankind will too be gone just like you will.
Not to mention, you'd be dead as heck then, what's the point?
Just live and do your things.
ehhh... That only ends with extinction of the human race. Achilles, for example, will never be forgotten so long as humans are around. In some cases, it may pass the extinction of humans, as books will survive us. As a species, we're really good with archives.... except Alexandria <_<... but we had to learn that lesson.
If Walken croaked right now, the story, while fictional, of the watch in Pulp Fiction would be worthy of a 1,000 year legacy. Dude delivered it dead-pan and it was perfect.
Do one or the other and you will never be forgotten.
I know stories of my great great grandparents and they are still remembered in our family because like I we ask tell people not just our lifes but we also ask people about their lifes and of the people they know or knew.
My great great grandmother when she was 10yrs old sang for Queen Victoria. She was playing with friends on the street and singing church hymns when the queen drove by heard her sing and told her to go home wash up and put on her nicest clothes and bring your mother to the palace.
When she became my grandmother's grandmother she would hear the kids sing silly kid songs and she stop them and say is this the song you want to sing for the Queen? And she made them sing hymns. Lol
And I know this because I sat there and listen to my grandmother tell stories.
Ask people their stories ask them all sorts of things like how did your parents meet? How did their parents meet? Ask what was their first house/apartment like? Who was their best friend growing up. Ask one question than go to the next. And when you have kids of your own tell them all the stories you know. So you and the people in your stories will live on.
Not to mention, you'd be dead as heck then, what's the point?
Just live and do your things.