Legacy - something transmitted by or received from an ancestor
This week is the anniversary of my father’s passing. An apt opportunity to reflect on one’s personal legacy. We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, but to leave behind something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
Personally, I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. Mary Oliver
For, The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A week after my father died a greenhouse called regarding the delivery of an order of trees. We were unaware of this order. He lived on Elm St where a few years earlier Dutch Elm disease had decimated the street of majestic centurions. My father was donating trees to each of his neighbours. His legacy was planting a seed of a tree under whose shade you will never sit. Hyacinthe Loyson. What will yours be?
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Shannon Alder