How I want to be remembered?
How I want to be remembered? It is a
paradox, isn’t it? To want something after I am dead and feel it while I
am alive. Imagining what my own life will be beyond my own life when my
own life still exists. Isn’t it?
So, How I want to be remembered?
I don’t wanna say that I want to be remembered as a significant or Influential or smart or wealthy or powerful or successful or a famous person. Or that I changed the world someway. I don’t know what it means to be influential when a world where we live lacks clear direction. I don’t know what it means to be remembered as wealthy when more than half of this world lives in poverty. I don’t know what it means to be powerful when a microscopic virus can shake you.
I want to be remembered for being a kind, compassionate person. A person who tried his best to care, to love, to help, to be OK, to have compassion as best I could. One who put benevolence ahead of everything. To be a good person, good friend, good husband, good son. Someone who lived honestly. Someone who enjoyed and believed in austerity. I know this answer might sound equally cliche, but I think any answer to how I want to be remembered, is this.
The Stoics taught that becoming a clear, unbiased and self-disciplined thinker allows one to understand the "logos" (the natural universal reason in all things). Thus, unhappiness and evil are the results of ignorance, and if someone is unkind, it is because they are unaware of their own universal reason. The solution to this evil and unhappiness can be achieved through the practice of Stoic philosophy (the examination of one's own judgments and behavior in order to determine where they might have diverged from the universal reason of nature). Hence the famous Stoic maxim: "Live according to nature", both in the sense of the laws of the universe and of man's own essential nature, reason.
But, the truth is, history is coated with multifarious amounts of people who lived with such virtuosity and mostly none of them is remembered at all. Well, In this time of digital dissemination, false representation, fake attributions and synthetic media replication, No one would be remembered for too long for transcendence or contributions. Take an example, In today’s scenario only that person is remembered who gave something which are currently useful or important. But to which don’t you think, he/she is being remembered because that thing is useful or important and not that person. Nothing lives forever and everyone looses everything. It is a passion, a good heart or all of the above which prevails.
Imagining what your life is for and what you imagine what your life is for, is what your life is for. Isn’t it?
Let me quote Diogenes here ; He has the most who is content with the least.
Ultimately, I have no illusion that I will only be remembered for couple of generations after me. So, what I do now; what I dedicate myself to; what I experience behind the eyes of own self; must be enough to be remembered for. If it isn’t; nothing is.
Hey!!! Hope you guys had a good read and some pondering to do 😄. Do comment and let me know how you want to be remembered.
Well, I’m not going to put a benign nor a grandeur answer to it but a comprehensible answer which would convince me at least.
So, How I want to be remembered?
I don’t wanna say that I want to be remembered as a significant or Influential or smart or wealthy or powerful or successful or a famous person. Or that I changed the world someway. I don’t know what it means to be influential when a world where we live lacks clear direction. I don’t know what it means to be remembered as wealthy when more than half of this world lives in poverty. I don’t know what it means to be powerful when a microscopic virus can shake you.
Ya ya, I
am attracted to these things just like any other person but I can say
with certain rectitude that in the end, any of these things are not
worth being remembered for. “Man conquers the world by conquering
himself” quotes Zeno of Citium
I want to be remembered for being a kind, compassionate person. A person who tried his best to care, to love, to help, to be OK, to have compassion as best I could. One who put benevolence ahead of everything. To be a good person, good friend, good husband, good son. Someone who lived honestly. Someone who enjoyed and believed in austerity. I know this answer might sound equally cliche, but I think any answer to how I want to be remembered, is this.
The Stoics taught that becoming a clear, unbiased and self-disciplined thinker allows one to understand the "logos" (the natural universal reason in all things). Thus, unhappiness and evil are the results of ignorance, and if someone is unkind, it is because they are unaware of their own universal reason. The solution to this evil and unhappiness can be achieved through the practice of Stoic philosophy (the examination of one's own judgments and behavior in order to determine where they might have diverged from the universal reason of nature). Hence the famous Stoic maxim: "Live according to nature", both in the sense of the laws of the universe and of man's own essential nature, reason.
Read: four cardinal virtues (derived from the teachings of Plato)
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But, the truth is, history is coated with multifarious amounts of people who lived with such virtuosity and mostly none of them is remembered at all. Well, In this time of digital dissemination, false representation, fake attributions and synthetic media replication, No one would be remembered for too long for transcendence or contributions. Take an example, In today’s scenario only that person is remembered who gave something which are currently useful or important. But to which don’t you think, he/she is being remembered because that thing is useful or important and not that person. Nothing lives forever and everyone looses everything. It is a passion, a good heart or all of the above which prevails.
Imagining what your life is for and what you imagine what your life is for, is what your life is for. Isn’t it?
Let me quote Diogenes here ; He has the most who is content with the least.
Ultimately, I have no illusion that I will only be remembered for couple of generations after me. So, what I do now; what I dedicate myself to; what I experience behind the eyes of own self; must be enough to be remembered for. If it isn’t; nothing is.
Hey!!! Hope you guys had a good read and some pondering to do 😄. Do comment and let me know how you want to be remembered.
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