If you are a good person, you will always be remembered through the actions of the people you were close to. Even small acts of kindness can ripple through generations.
I’ve been privileged to work as a LEO before, although it sucked. A lot of people thanked me, when I helped them. Some want to pay me.
All I ever asked was, “in the future, if you notice someone needs help, help them.”
I was riding home one hot summer morning, years ago, on my motorcycle.
I was not a LEO then.
I saw two cops pushing a car, while a person was steering.
I parked my bike, and helped them push.
One cop said “you know this guy?”(the car’s owner.) “No, but the gas station is pretty far.”
While we were pushing, the same cop said “man, you have restored my faith in humanity!”
I didn’t think of it as a big deal. Just saw people that needed help.
I don’t have a statue. I may be lucky to have a marked grave.
But. I have tried to make it a better world than I was born into. That means a lot. The trying.
A million years from now, if humanity still exists, it will have just the tiniest, fant faded glimmer of trying to make things better I contributed to. Pictures and pyramids, will be dust in the wind…
In regards to being remembered.