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Posthumous fame

Posthumous fame

You close your eyes. You think you are not here. You are gone, your time is up and your name was written for the last time. You wonder what is left from you. What did you leave behind? Are they talking about you? And what do they say? Do they remember you? And if so what do they remember from you? What you did, what you were, were they of great importance? Has anything changed in your life? Did your life create something? Or did your life pass away and perish as the wind carried away its ashes?

Your life now has another meaning. Because any actions you do will not be lost with you. It will follow you forever, it will follow your echo and it will embrace those who connected with you, what you touched and created. The decisions you made, your choices, your mistakes, your right ones have another value. Because they will stay, after you. They will suggest you, they will be enough for someone to characterize you, even if they did not know you. Your actions will be connected with your children. Your children will carry on their backs the weight of your own reputation. And it will liberate them, inspire them or stigmatize them, flatten them.

In conclusion, I will tell you a true story.

One hundred and thirty years ago, a man looked at the morning paper and, to his surprise and horror, read his name in the funeral column. The newspapers had reported the death of the wrong person due to a mistake.

His first reaction was to be shocked. Am I here or there? When he regained his composure, his second thought was to find out what people had said about him. “The king of dynamite is dead.” “He was the merchant of death.” This man was the inventor of dynamite, and when he read the words “merchant of death,” he wondered, “Is that how they are going to remember me?”

He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this was not the way he wanted to be remembered. From that day on, he began to work in the name of peace. His name was Alfred Nobel and we remember him today from the Nobel Prizes.

Just as Alfred Nobel came to terms with his feelings and redefined his values, so should we take a step back and do the same.

How would you like to be remembered? Will they remember you with love and respect?

 

 

 

 

Translation: LECTURES BUREAU

Source: http://mythagogia.blogspot.com/

 



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