What you leave behind.....

[Xander]

A couple of things got me wondering this weekend.
What do I leave behind when the times comes to leave this world. Prematurely or otherwise.
I know this may sound a bit morbid....okay very morbid. But I can't stop to wonder. Why is it so important for some people to have something here, that will say. "Yo! I WAS HERE!!!"
For some, it's the small replicant of themselves. In form of a child. For others it's their lifes work.

Me, all I'll currently will leave behind, is a couple of stories, a few cue-tapes with music I've made, and a net personality named Xander. That's it.
And you know. I'm perfectly satisfied with that, because all represent things I love dealing with.

So, the question is. What do you leave behind??
And what are you thoughts on this matter??

Forgive me morbid mood today.

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Why fear the only certain thing in life???

 

[R Nitelight]

A great big pile of dirty laundry.

 

[CW]

Pleasant memories in the two kids that I sired and raised.

 

[Alyrahh]

I'm not sure, not exactly sure I'm worried about it either. Seems like a waste to worry over something you'll really have no knowledge of. I mean, the things you THINK you will, or want to be, remembered for, might not necessarily be.

Did that just confuse the rest of you as badly as it did me? Sheesh, who wants to give me writing lessons?

 

[insideShiraz]

X-man...

I saw your thread with no replys, and was going to post Silly, 'till I read it...

I'm listening to Breakfast With the Beatles, and you have plenty to Leave behind. It's in your heart to make Music, how many people on the earth have that? People sit back and sing Brittany Speares, and think they have a song in their hearts...

"Nobody told you how to Unfold your Love"...While My Guitar Gently Weeps...

I have a Les Paul Standard, and working on a Marshall stack...

 

[Ezzy]

Nice thought provoking thread...

One computer with hammered on keyboard, two children (well one adult son and one teenage daughter) neither of whom knows me as their father, a lover, some friends and ex-lovers and some ex-friends as well.

One slightly used (shop soiled only) net personality called Ezzy, plenty of mileage left in it if the right person wants it.

And last but by no means least, a wry smile on the faces of all who knew and cared about me, (I hope that’s the way they remember me).


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

[Edited by Ezzy on 10-22-2000 at 09:31 AM]

 

[Lovely Latina]

This is a tad off the subject, but this is the only thread that I think this could really fit into right now. LOL

I was just cleaning out one of my old email boxes that I rarely use anymore when I came across this. It's so cute (and somehow makes a whole lotta sense to MY twisted brain), that I just had to share it.


"How Life SHOULD Be"


Life..........

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it?

Death.

What's that, a bonus?

I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alchohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities or cares, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating in warmth and comfort.......

and you finish off as..............








.........an orgasm.

 

[CreamyLady]

I think when I am gone, I am going to arrange to have an apple -- a bright, golden, shiny apple -- thrown into the middle of the table of a very smug group.

The tag will say: To the fairest.

War will break out at the table; everyone will assume it means "to the best looking." I'm not sure anyone will get the fact that it will really be for the most level-headed, open-minded, and fair-minded person.

When the dust settles, and everyone is busy picking pieces of broken china out of the carpet, someone will turn the tag over, and it will be signed, "Regards, Eris." The apple will be applesauce, and life will continue. As usual.

 

[Stormystarr]

I'm always in a morbid mood.

Well, let me see. I've thought on this a lot.
First of all, nothing will remind others of me. The only ones who will remember me are my mom and brother. And I honestly think that if it weren't for pictures they have of me they wouldn't remember me at all!
I always seem to be nonexistent, here and in RL. I'm the one who is always waiting in the shadows observing the others. I can tell you a lot about other people, but very little about myself except for the pain. So when someone says they want to die, I try to talk them out of it because thats the right thing to do, but in reality I can fully understand and respect thier wishes to die, because not even one single day goes by that I don't want to die. But this is not me saying 'I am going to commit suicide' It's just me being honest, it's part of me to feel this way, it's who I am. And anyone who takes the time to get to know me, really know me deep down inside will understand and accept me for who I am.

Sorry for going on and on, it just sort of came out as I was typing.

 

[Nicole]

So, the question is. What do you leave behind??
And what are you thoughts on this matter??


Hmmmmmmmmm I guess I would leave behind the memory of being a fun loving Mother/Auntie.

You see I am the big kid of the family, I'm the one that at the family picnic is fighting the kids for the slide or the swing, I'm the one that is being wrestled by the kids, the one that the kids come to when they need something or just want a hug and a kiss.

My Family is always amazed that out of everyone it is me that has the kids respect. They all come to me because I am kid like but they also listen to me when I am telling them off. I guess I speak the same language.

Anyway that is what I would be leaving behind. My thoughts on that ... Great, at least I'll be remembered for having fun.

I have lots of other things too but that's what I think people will remember, and that's fine with me

 

[MinkSoul]

Me?? I'm taking it all with me.

I haven't figured out how yet.......
But i'm Working on it.....

 

[Roll-One]

I never thought about it until i read this post..LOL

I'll have to say, i'm not leaving anything..i'll be dead, so i guess it won't matter to me..

 

[•Quartz_Crystal•]

Hmmm, what shall I leave behind.

Hopefully, nothing.


Except possibly a few good books on advanced sarcasm....and maybe a life biography called 'there's no jelly in my donut, and only scrambled eggs go up my nose'

 

[Jester]

.A group of the most amazing friends that anyone could ever have
.A pain in the ass family who's always there when you need 'em
.An ex-gf who is an amazing person and I hope forgives me
.A good memory for those who knew me (hopefully)
.This mortal coil
.Caffiene

 

[Ravenloft]

Hmm...

A few laughs and a bottle of wine???

 

[Puddles The Wonder Poodle]

Hmmm, what shall I leave behind.

Hopefully, nothing.


Except possibly a few good books on advanced sarcasm....and maybe a life biography called 'there's no jelly in my donut, and only scrambled eggs go up my nose'

PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST

 

[Puddles The Wonder Poodle]

Hmm...

A few laughs and a bottle of wine???

ROO! ROO! ROO!

 

[•Quartz_Crystal•]

piiiiiiiist poodle? *raises a brow*

 

[Slut_boy]

I think this is an incredible question, Xander!

Xander, as I have mentioned before, I was raised in a Buddhist family and these were the values that I grew up with. And so it isn't difficult to see how my views of the cycle of life and death are heavily influenced by this doctrine (eventhough I am noy myself a buddhist).

The buddhist philosophy is centered mostly on lessons of how to leave this earthly plane in search of a more spiritual place. But in order to leave the person must "want" to leave. But the desire to go is not in itself enough to alleviate the person of his burden (that is the chance that s/he may be reborn again). This is determined by at least two other things (i) the person's karma; and (ii) the person's attachment to this world.

The less attachment that one has to this world the better off one is spiritually (according to the eastern philosophy). If you leave things behind and you are very attached to them, then the idea is that you may face another life here on earth either because (i) you were not ready to leave in that you loved earthly things too much; or (ii) the bond of attachment to this world was stronger than your desire to leave.

I suppose, Xander, I am just wondering how lucky people may in fact be (without sometimes knowing it) when they leave very little of themselves behind.

 

[Firesprite]

1. A Joanne shaped hole in the hearts of everyone who knows me.

2. Lots of shocked family when they see what's on my hard drives.