Yesterday I fell of the NaBloPoMo wagon. It was for a good reason though, I was at a lunch party with my dad that happens only once a year and is very special for him. While at that party I got to meet some of the old work colleagues of my dad and gather their impressions about his work. I must say I was proud and surprised.
My dad is a guy that doesn’t speak a lot about his accomplishments so I never got the idea of how much he had done for all the people in that meeting until one person told me that I should be proud about what my dad had done and told me the stories. I was really proud of my dad and it got me thinking of what I want my kids to be proud of when I grow older.
Legacy
Legacy is the most important thing you’re going to leave behind you. With the developments in storage technology and communication tools we can now record every footstep in our life and share it with the generations to come. All we say and do will be available there for our kids and grandkids to look at and learn from. So now we are responsible for the education of the coming generations and we need to think well what Legacy we’re going to pass along as a teaching. Legacy is something that lasts so technical data is not part of your legacy. The main components of legacy are: values, passion, hardwork, ethics, trust and reputation.
These values are going to teach by example and unlike technical innovations this will last forever. Most of our core values such as hard work, ethics and passion for our job have been common for more than a couple of hundred years so we at least can expect they will be for some more time. On a social networking POV, legacy will be amongst the example you give to your circles of influence on how much their life changes because of your example.
Are you working on how you want people to remember you? What will your legacy be? At what age should you start thinking about this?
