When you die, presumably it's just like going to sleep and never waking up again. Your consciousness just shuts off. Wouldn't a legacy be something that actually closely represents what your consciousness was like, like a work of art? A great novel, movie, body of music, etc.? What do some random kids with some of your DNA have to do with you really? If you can't live through your progeny and descendants like a parasite who never dies, how exactly are they your legacy? They're just random people your sperm and some woman's egg created, but completely their own person.
What do people mean by "leaving their legacy"?
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Children are an impression of both the parent’s mental state and their genetics. The genetic part is kinda obvious; but the mental state becomes apparent with time.
Personally, the older I get , the more I realize that I see things, do things, and react to things exactly like my parents. This is no coincidence. This is in part because our parents literally mold our personality for 18yrs of our life like an art sculpture is molded by a sculptor. And It’s huge things like my aversion to drugs from stories that my father told me about his failure friends as a child, or the tiny things like me not eating lobster as grown man because my mother never put it on the dinner table as a child. Hell, the blue print for what I see as fashionable was actually passed on from my grandmother(who dressed all my aunts and uncles well) , to my mother, then to myself and I see bits of it in my wardrobe in 2021. All these things are little bits of my parent’s consciousness. This is their legacy and I’ll most likely (and unconsciously) pass on these mannerisms to my children one day as they did with me.
And this of course says nothing about businesses or family skill sets which a parent can toil for generations to build and pass on to their children. But that’s a story for another day.
I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way at all, @Jermio ; but did you grow up with a father in the house? Usually a father lays this stuff out at the end of the teen years. Mine gave me a brief rundown of our family history and honestly it’s like an art collage and you can see the bits of consciousness passed on from generation to generation through thought styles and repeated life actions. Through this art collage of life, I can literally see a pattern of behavior started by a great uncle or a grand father that persisted for generations or been replaced by a new family member who improved on it.
It’s all these things that make children your legacy
Diondon
Thanks to the lawyers uh, I marbled the foyer
Wealth, philanthropy, property, business, descendants
Anything in which your name will live on after death
Preferably in a good light lol
Anything in which your name will live on after death
Preferably in a good light lol
Children are an impression of both the parent’s mental state and their genetics. The genetic part is kinda obvious; but the mental state becomes apparent with time.
Personally, the older I get , the more I realize that I see things, do things, and react to things exactly like my parents. This is no coincidence. This is in part because our parents literally mold our personality for 18yrs of our life like an art sculpture is molded by a sculptor. And It’s huge things like my aversion to drugs from stories that my father told me about his failure friends as a child, or the tiny things like me not eating lobster as grown man because my mother never put it on the dinner table as a child. Hell, the blue print for what I see as fashionable was actually passed on from my grandmother(who dressed all my aunts and uncles well) , to my mother, then to myself and I see bits of it in my wardrobe in 2021. All these things are little bits of my parent’s consciousness. This is their legacy and I’ll most likely (and unconsciously) pass on these mannerisms to my children one day as they did with me.
And this of course says nothing about businesses or family skill sets which a parent can toil for generations to build and pass on to their children. But that’s a story for another day.
I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way at all, @Jermio ; but did you grow up with a father in the house? Usually a father lays this stuff out at the end of the teen years. Mine gave me a brief rundown of our family history and honestly it’s like an art collage and you can see the bits of consciousness passed on from generation to generation through thought styles and repeated life actions. Through this art collage of life, I can literally see a pattern of behavior started by a great uncle or a grand father that persisted for generations or been replaced by a new family member who improved on it.
It’s all these things that make children your legacy
Yes, I did, which is why this whole thing is all the weirder to me. I can see little similarities in behavior or personality, but we're mostly vastly different, so I don't really get what he could point to as "his legacy" with me or my brother. It's more like a relay race than anything.
boriquaking
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Not everyone gets a statue erected after them.
And maybe, your kids, or their kids, go on to do something great. And you and all your ancestors would be responsible for the greatness.
Or you could give birth to Hitler
And maybe, your kids, or their kids, go on to do something great. And you and all your ancestors would be responsible for the greatness.
Or you could give birth to Hitler
Quality-wise, do you consider yourself an improvement from your father? Or see yourself the same as him? Or maybe worse off?
