be remembered

I feel like adding this to the accomplished list – but this should be an ongoing life-goal.

Last entry was about how I can and will be remembered as a great father to my new little girl. She is my inspiration to be ‘better.’ And now she has a little brother on the way. [that will be two kids before our second anniversary and my wife was not pregnant at our wedding – yeah, this guy is getting snipped!]

Right now my little girl and her brother-on-the-way are at a mostly just growing stage… she’s starting to stand supported, feeding herself, and laughing at “funny” things like spatulas or other things the rest of us adults find mundane.

I just lost a grandfather who was my first employer (farmer) and my best childhood friend. I’ll remember him with the warmest of memories for as long as I live. Here’s some of the lessons we can learn on being remembered from him: 1) Life throws some tough curve-balls, but we can only hit them if we first get up to bat and then swing. At a young age the car his entire family was in was hit by a train in their own driveway – he was the only survivor. After bouncing from estranged relative’s homes to foster homes to shelters he found his wife – had three daughters, 8 grandchildren (7/8 married 8/8 college graduates) and 8 great-grandchildren (number 8 and soon number 9 will be my kids)... and built a successful farm from scratch. 2) Even though there is an entire field of beans to walk (cut the weeds from) – there’s always time to stop for cookies. Atleast every 30 minutes we would stop for some reason or another – it’s amazing he paid me. But not just for water and cookies – we would take breaks to visit family members, stop at the next town over where we knew half of the people at the diner for lunch – go to the fair – go to a museum – do anything but the work we had to do; yet somehow manage to finish every summer. 3) Never waste time on something that you don’t love. He did this by surrounding himself with things he loved – his farm and his yard were his playground – his family was always included – National Geographic always waiting on the table. 4) Never miss an opportunity to help. If he was done with his stuff he always knew a neighbor or family member that could use a hand.

He wasn’t just close to my heart – but countless others. Even though he only met my daughter once and my son never – I will make sure that they know about him, my grandfather and one of my best friends ever.

How do you know this will ever be achieved? I can’t comprehend how you can say for sure, 100% that the person will remember you as you hope, without a reminder etc. I want to be remembered without someone reminding the person..but how do you imprint a memmory in someone’s brain? I know for one, that I want to.. however, realistically speaking, acknowledge the fact that I wnt ever click ‘I`m done’. =[

Summer returns.
It’s time to meet new people, and be judged on first impressions.
And it’s also time to prove to myself that I can complete this goal.
When I meet someone new I want to have enough, enough personality, zest, I don’t know, something that makes people want to see me again, not just be like “oh, i’ll see you sometime or another, even if it takes twenty years.”

I want to matter. I want to be famous. I want to be remembered.

I want to do something so great that people will remember me…wether it’s befriend someone, do a cancerwalk, or just to smile at someone and brighten their day!

I don’t want to be remembered as that singer or that actor. I want to be remembered for something good i’ve done for someone. Or helping people who haven’t the means to help themselves.

well… I hope this is a step closer for a lot of people =)

I don’t think being remembered is as important as remembering. I feel like this shouldn’t be on my list. I think many people strive to do things to change the world….which is a great thing! It makes me wonder, though,how many of those people had fun doing it? I’m sure changing the world feels amazing, but when you’re caught up in doing all these things, I want to step back and look at it. I want to remember and enjoy what I’m doing. I don’t want to be like, “hey…that was great, but it went by so fast.”

i think in the end, whatever the end is, i want to be more than just an old memory or a gravestone.

I don’t want to die and have nobody remember me (like 99.9999% of all the people who have ever died). I want a legacy, I want to do something huge that everybody will remember me for. I don’t want to be remembered like Hitler, more like Christ. I want people to remember my name for millenniums to come….Yes….Millenniums.

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Also, I guess being remembered for thousands of years is the next best thing if my plan to achieve immortality fails.