How do you want to be remembered?

[FlamingoBlue]

Just for a moment, forget you are a nameless, faceless thing in cyberspace
where no one knows who you really are.
Forget about all the wise-ass remarks and the petty arguements. Think about who you are and how you want others to remember you.

My experience is that when people say they "really don't care" what others think of them is that the statement is untrue. Everyone wants to be thought of as something or someone. How about you?

blue

 

[MADDOG]

Flamingo, this is a worthy question.

I want to be remembered as a nice guy - someone who didn't even have it in him to hurt other people. Someone who loved with everything he had. Someone who loved to give more than he liked to recieve. Someone who couldn't just see somone suffering and not bleed for them and try and do something about it.

I want to be remembered as someone who lived life to the fullest - every single day of it.

I want to be remembered as someone who was successful - not in terms of wealth, but in terms of achieving everything I set out to achieve, especially in the face of extreme adversity and those who thought I didn't have what it takes.

I want to be remembered as someone who had everything he ever desired, which is really only true love and happiness. Everything else is just the icing on the cake to me.

If I can be remembered like that, I'll die a very fulfilled man.

MADDOG

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

As...

a perfect, juicy vine ripened, bright red, home grown tomato.

Spelling mistakes asside.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

On my tombstone: "See! I told you I was sick."

Seriously, I don't know. A man, maybe. Someone who supported his family, lived up to his obligations, went after his dreams, bettered the world (or at least his block), guided his children, accepted his responsibilities, grew wiser every day, took defeat with grace, was an active citizen and had the same friends for 50 years. I want to be remembered as a man.

 

[CreamyLady]

I think I'll be remembered as a mirror; someone who reflected back to others what they wished, or needed, to see; unknowable in herself, as there may be nothing there.

There won't be a tombstone, because while I really want my remains dropped into the crater of a live volcano I might have to settle for cremation. However, were there a tombstone, I have a feeling it should say: What in the hell was THAT?

Actually, that's really how I want to be remembered. What in the hell was THAT?

 

[KillerMuffin]

I want the people in my mother in law's hometown to tell the year by me. For example, "ya'll know, the year Lisa Sue ran off to Memphis with that one hippie guy..." "ya'll know, the year Mary Ann's daughter in law turned the high school football field into a mud track..." "Ya'll know, the year Mary Ann's daughter in law double parked behind the police chief and wouldn't let him move cause he peed on her tires..."

That sort of thing.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Welp....

I'm not enclined to have a tombstone - but if I did, on it would enscribed....

"He gave it his best shot."

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

"But the other guy had better aim."

 

[Isabella Thorne]

.... as the IT Girl of course!
_________
pass the vodka please

 

[Expertise]

He did the best he could with the gifts he was given. In looking back, his joys outweighed his regrets. Basicly remembered as a "good man".

 

[FlamingoBlue]

I want to be remered as....

a mensch.

blue

 

[Mia]

on my deathbed, sixty years from now

The most important opinion to me is that of my husband and children. I want to be remembered as a wonderful mother who raised two intelligent, well-adjusted adults. I want to be remembered as a giving friend, partner and lover to my husband. If only those things are thought of, then I will have considered my life a success.

 

[Aranian]

"I have no desires to move mountains,
Construct monuments, or leave behind, in my wake,
Material evidence of my existence.
But, in final recollection, if the essence of my being
Has caused a SMILE to have appeared upon your face,
Or a touch of joy within your heart...
Then in LIVING- I have made my mark."
- Thomas L. Odem, Jr.

 

[Hecate]

Not at all!!!

It would be my dream to just be "gone". One of my nightmarish thoughts is the idea that I will be "missed" by those who love me - and I would not want them to mourne because of me.

Doesn't make sense maybe but it is the truth.

 

[Siren]

WOOOO HOOOO MADDOGGIE, YOU GET SEXIER WITH EACH POST.

 

[teresafannin]

I want to be remembered as a good mom, a loving daughter & a sister. I don't want a big funeral or anything like that, just a nice time for my friends & family to cry a bit & laugh a bit. As weird as I am, there are lots of funny stories about me. I want to make a difference in the world & I hope that through the victim's advocacy program, I can do that.

 

[Ezzy]

I want to be remembered

With a smile.

EZ http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm2/sleep.gif

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Yeah... right...

My ultimate desires are of immortality (sorry, spelling again - just don't know the rules and this here lap-top - can't figure out the fucking spell check shit - oh fucking well... don't care) - to rule the world - to make all the decisions on right or wrong. I actually believe I could do it too. No problem. But that's a pipe dream - right? A tomato's fine.

 

[Cheri]

I want the people who remember me to laugh

Sure they can have a viewing and everyone can come and look at me all gross on a casket, but intead of a funeral I want a party. A big party. I want everybody I've ever known to be invited and after eating the acres of bar-b-que, they should all tell what the loved about me and cry and laugh and hug and kiss. And then I want fireworks so good that they will the measurement of great fireworks display for all who attend. I want the people of Cincinnati to think they're seeing aurora borealis when they look north and see them going off.
I guess I want to add something special to the memories of me that my loved ones have.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Well....

Cheri - even though I'd prefer you live and pink - I'd take you in a casket anyday.

 

[Gaucho]

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them, I shall use my time."

Jack London 1876 - 1916

'nuff said.

 

[Dreamer1]

I want to be remembered as a good father, a good husband and a good friend.

 

[Cheri]

Re: Well....

Cheri - even though I'd prefer you live and pink - I'd take you in a casket anyday.

Necrophiliac, huh? Would have thought you'd prefer them alive and um.. kicking.

[Edited by Cheri on 09-13-2000 at 06:39 AM]

 

[Skibum]

I don't really know how I want to be remembered. Certainly as a good father. As a teacher. Someone who made a difference, for the better, in someones life.

 

[*Eve*]

I'd like to be remembered as the angry lady with the revolver.