Have you ever thought about this?

In 100 years, like in 2123, we will all be buried with our relatives and friends.

Strangers will live in our homes we fought so hard to build, and they will own everything we have today. All our possessions will be unknown and unborn, including the car we spent a fortune on, and will probably be scrap, preferably in the hands of an unknown collector.

Our descendants will hardly know who we were, nor will they remember us. How many of us know our grandfather's father?

After we die, we will be remembered for a few more years, then we are just a portrait on someone's bookshelf, and a few years later our history, photos and deeds disappear in history's oblivion. We won't even be memories.

If we paused one day to analyze these thoughts, perhaps we would understand how ignorant and weak the dream to achieve it all really was.

If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people.

Always having more, no time for what's really valuable in this life. I'd change all this to live and enjoy the walks I've never taken, these hugs I didn't give, these kisses for our children and our loved ones, these jokes we didn't have time for. Those would certainly be the most beautiful moments to remember, after all they would fill our lives with joy.

And we waste it day after day with greed and intolerance.

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The older I get the more my mind is occupied by what legacy I'll leave. I feel like I've wasted so much time.

I think about this frequently. Your words capture the concept so well, I ordered a coffee from a young man today at Starbucks and he asked what I was up to today. I took a moment to assess his eyes and found a genuine person, young, perhaps a bit naive, but genuine. I shared, he smiled, and though we will never see each other again, in that moment there was this ephemeral bliss that can exist with the correct amounts of ignorance and blind compassion for no reason aside from two people engaging the human condition and sharing space-time.

That's why I'm nice to everyone all day in physical realm. It's way more fun and unexpected stuff happens 🍻. And taught some kid to play bball after he shared with me his dad doesn't 🤣. Like a group of kids flocked to me lol yesterday fun times hahahhaha

This got me thinking about legacy as well. I want to build a legacy to be remembered by my great grandchildren. Is it prideful to want that?

I’ve been thinking lately that if my great grandparents wrote a book, I would love to have read that. Maybe I will write something, just so my future family will know what i was thinking and how I lived my life.

I guess our npubs are permanent. More permanent than any social media account or even digital ebooks or videos. That is a wild thought. Are npubs the only thing that are truly permanent?