The Creation of Legacy with Living in the Moment #68 #cong24 #legacy

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Legacy is mainly spoken about after death. Whether it is the death of someone globally famous or someone in a person’s personal life. It becomes the talk of the town or of the family who has gained a loss. It becomes a memory shared and the sorrow of no new memory created. From the experience of death, it becomes the hope you have created happy memories among others when the inevitable occurs for yourself. It becomes the focus of one’s everyday life. Have I done enough? How did I contribute to the people I love? Did I help the environment? Does the footprint I leave behind impact the world with something bigger than myself?

Legacy does get wrapped up in what others think of oneself. What reputation have I left behind? It becomes an obsessive habit of mainly focusing on other people’s opinion of oneself. Do they like me? Have I said anything rude? People tend to lose themselves within the idea that they must be perfectly liked by everyone around them. The belief that their legacy left behind is known to be liked by all. The idea of a perfect legacy told by others tends to drown us in pleasing others above ourselves.

People tend to forget that they have all of their memories. Their legacy should focus more on their satisfaction of what they have done for themselves. Their love for themselves. From my personal experience, I wrapped myself in the idea of always being there for my workplace. If they needed an extra worker, I was there. I didn’t call in sick to work for two years just so I didn’t let my boss down. Yes, I may have gained the adjective hard worker but I lost myself. So wrapped in the need of being the perfect worker that I let myself down. I forgot the most important person, myself. The legacy I create should be one where I was happy, the one where I showed up for myself and not constantly others. Once I changed that perspective about focusing more on myself, I became more satisfied. I did call in sick once recently as I really needed to and my friend was proud but most importantly, I am proud. I showed up for myself. People should shift their focus on themselves when it comes to legacy. Maybe I will be remembered for all the times I didn’t call in sick or maybe the one where I did but that’s okay. You will have great things spoken of you but also bad. That is okay so long as you are doing what is right for you.

People tend to get so wrapped up in what they leave behind and miss out on living in the moment. Living in the moment without thinking about what the aftermath we will leave behind. Like many others, I have become more focused on creating such a perfect moment but perfection doesn’t really exist. We tend to go through life like a checklist but rarely soak it in. From personal experience, I find the moments I’ve created in a spur of the moment are the ones I cherish the most. From saying yes to act in an apache advertisement to saying yes to going on a spontaneous trip to Galway. I have left little drops of personal legacy as classmates remember the time I acted in the apache advertisement and with every like and share on the facebook page. The legacy of becoming closer to a friend of mine in Galway. Even the little things on the spur of a moment like the time I spontaneously complimented a stranger on the street. The spontaneity of deciding to go to a concert would be a big memory many people have of me. I choose to live in the moment of music. Many speak of me as the lady who has been to every concert even though I obviously haven’t. It is a great interest of mine and I never think too hard about saying yes even if my bank account is low. I leave that legacy with others even though I’m still alive. It is simply like our personalities lie deep within our legacy. What we love to do and what we don’t like. The ability to be yourself freely creates our legacy throughout our life. Legacy is like the footprints and leaps we leave behind even when we are still walking. Live in the moment as you discover that perfect doesn’t exist.