What kind of legacy do you want to leave after you've passed away?
What do you want to be remembered for?
Explain.
Monday, October 23, 2017
Blog 11 - Monday, October 23, 2017
At the end of Fahrenheit 451, Granger tells Montag about the passing of his grandfather and the mark he left on the world. Montag begins to wonder what kind of legacy he will leave after his own passing.
What kind of legacy do you want to leave after you've passed away?
What do you want to be remembered for?
Explain.
What kind of legacy do you want to leave after you've passed away?
What do you want to be remembered for?
Explain.
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I know this might sound stupid to some of you, but I want to be remembered for braiding/doing people's hair. I've done a lot of people's hair in elementary school and high school. I would do my friends' hair and people would see it, they asked "Who did your hair?" and they would reply with "Kirsten did it." Then that person/those people would ask me to do their hair. And I would do it. One time in elementary school, I did almost every single girls' hair in the grade and when their parents picked them up from school, they wondered who did it and they said "Kirsten did it." I love doing people's hair, it's so much fun and I love seeing their reactions to it. Sometimes I'll do something simple in my friend's hair like a messy bun or high ponytail and they'll be impressed with that. The part I love the most is when I do a more complex braid and they're so surprised by it. Just ask Lauren C.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true Kirsten... you're really good at braiding hair! Nice blog!
DeleteHuh, I never knew that you did peoples hair. Mine's a bit to short so I'll just take your word.
DeleteHaha it's true! I love it when you braid my hair!
DeleteEveryone has told me how good you are at doing peoples hair! You'll have to do mine someday!
DeleteGreat blog:)
I loved it when you did my hair last year it was so pretty! Nice blog !!
DeleteI would like to be remembered for being a nice and helpful person. I try my best everyday to come to school with a smile on my face and a positive attitude and I try to be nice to everyone I meet. I also try to be as helpful as I can be. When people have trouble with something or they need someone to talk to I’m always there for them. I think this is a good legacy to leave behind because people can remember you as the person who always went out of their way to help them out when they needed it.
ReplyDeleteYou are an extremely nice person, Jenna! Great blog!
DeleteThat is very true. Great blog.
DeleteThere is nothing in particular that I would want everyone to remember about me. I would like for everyone to actually remember that I existed on the planet. I believe I am a nice person and I think people will remember that but I don't I am not stressing about it.
ReplyDeleteGreat point, nice blog
DeleteGood point, as long as someone remembers you existed its not too bad of a life.
Deletesome Mexican legends believed that remembering someone will let them stay in paradise while forgetting them will lead them to hell, so I guess we'd like to be remembered.
DeleteI believe that I want to be remembered for making a change in the education system. Judge me all you want but I do believe that this education system can clearly be outperformed. Reaserchers have done studies and the average IQ of students homechooled are 10% higher than the ones in schools. I've read articles and they tell me that in Finland, teachers get a decent pay, they have vegetarien meals, there's no homework and they work in cooperation instead of competition and guess what, their school system outperforms any in the world and bullying to them doesn't seem to exist because it's so uncommon. now if we told the prime minister too change the education system, his answer is probably going to be no. And i just find that ridiculous because education is the key to fixing the world. Look at it this way: if we taught people how big the number 60 million people is, then they would remember how many soldiers never came back home from world war 2 and realise the misery of it. If we taught them their laws, then they would know what is right and what isn't instead of just donts, if we told them about the cruelty of annimals every day, they would become vegetariens and think of the suffering of annimals just for our personnal taste. I'm telling you that education is the answer, and I want to be it's fixer. We should convert to the school ystem that Finland has. There's no down side to this. It would perhaps be one of the most important changes in Canadian history. I could make rallies, change the hearts of people and their minds. I could do manifestations in front of the parlement, anything to make the change. It's the answer to world peace. Isn't that what we're all looking for?
ReplyDeleteWow! I never thought about that, great blog!
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DeleteGreat ideas!!! Fantastic Blog
DeleteI haven’t given a lot of thought to how I want to be remembered after I die. I don’t exactly have a specific goal or change I want to make in the world. I just want to be remembered for being a good person, and for trying my best at everything I do. I want to travel a lot when I’m older, so I want to be remembered by my future kids and grandchildren for all the adventures I went on around the world.
ReplyDeleteI've never thought about leaving a mark before I die. It doesn't seem that important to me. Obviously I want the people I love to remember me, but I don't mind the world not knowing my name after I'm gone. I want to do good in the world and change it for the better, but I don't really care if it's my name that people will remember forever.
ReplyDeletei can completely see where your coming from! makes sense, great blog!!
DeleteI would want to be remembered for making a change in society and how everyone is acting. Everyone gives into peer pressure very easily, others pressure. If you do not act, dress, or talk a certain way you are not as good as everyone else. If you do not have the same things as some people you are not "cool". If you do not have the same interests as others you are wrong. Our generation is just a mosh-pit of violence and messed up things for our enjoyment. I would love to make a change to the world and fix these problems, make people understand that its okay to be different, to not care what others think as long as you are happy. There are many things wrong with our society and generation, hopefully we can fix some of the problems we face.
ReplyDeletevery well thought out, like ur idea :)
Deletei don't think anyone wants to be forgotten about. By the time i die all I want to do is leave a mark on the world. Be someone who will not be forgotten about. I want people in 100 years to know who I am. I know that the chances are very slim i just wanna impact the world. When I get older I don't want to be the standard Canadian I wanna be someone who can change the world. i want to leave a mark on society that has never been done before. Out of the 7 billion people on this planet there are at most 10 million people who are remembered and i want to be one of those
ReplyDeleteI would like to be remembered by people around the world for doing something special.I want to be remembered by many people for doing something that no one will be able to forget. Right now i dont know what that will be.one thing i certainly want to be remembered for is to have an impact on the world of hockey. If that cannot happen i will want to be remembered by my family. i would like the future generations of my family to still talk about me and remember who i am.
ReplyDeleteWhen I pass on, I don’t really plan to have done anything big, in the sense that I’m changing the education system, or ending wars. When I pass, I want everyone who was acquainted with me, whether it was a friend, someone who I simply worked with, or even someone who barely knows me, to have know me as someone who would give them joy and happiness. I would want people to know me as someone who was always happy, and loved seeing others laugh. That is how I am now, and is how I want to be forever. So I may have said that I didn’t want to do something big, but in my opinion, happiness is very important, and if I can make one person I happy, I have done my job correct. :D
ReplyDeleteNice, I agree happiness is super important. And nice explanation about everything.
DeleteI said something similar and just want to be remembered by friends and family as being happy.
DeleteFor me it depends I what I become when I grow up. For example, let’s say I become a business owner (which I most likely won’t) I would want to be known for the business that I was owner of at one point, I want would want the business to become my legacy. Or if I grow up to have a job as a professional athlete then I would want the sport to be my legacy, my team, my jersey, my number etc… Or if I grow up to own a huge house I would want me kids would want that house to be my lava you when someone moves in they say that I once lived there
ReplyDeletemost people in my opinion would say they want to do something great or ineradicable, or be remembered in a superficial way. personally I just want to be remembered by my friend and family and the people I knew as just a happy nice person. i would hope I can leave some sort of impact on someone maybe not the world or a big amount of people. I would hope I would at least someone in some way. even if I just made someone happy in some sort of way, I'd consider I've left may mark.
ReplyDeleteHaving a big impact on a small group of people is better than having a small impact on a big group of people. Great blog
DeleteNo ones knows what their life is going to be like in the future which is why this question is so interesting. When I pass away, I would like to be remembered as a friendly, kind person who got along with the people around her. I would hate to be remembered as someone who wasn’t very nice. As a legacy, I would love to leave some traditions for my family. Traditions are important because they can be passed on forever and have sentimental value. In the end, we don’t know what the future holds so we’ll have to wait and see what happens!
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. We don't know what life is going to be for us. Great blog!
DeleteI want to be simply be remembered as someone who made a significant difference in someone's life. Even if that's only one person or a relative, that's the most I can ask for. I don't feel the need to make it in history. Leaving here acknowledging that I made a difference in someone's life is what I want be remembered for. ye
ReplyDeleteLove this blog! You're a great friend and have definitely reached your goal! Great blog!
DeleteI've thought long and hard about this, wanting to leave something behind for people to appreciate what i did. i want to become a doctor and i love helping people, so what i would do is participate in lots of humanitarian trips to around the world and make dramatic changes in peoples lives. hard conditions wouldn't bother me and tough labor wouldn't either. if i was them, i would totally love if someone would be as kind to do that for me, so why wouldn't i help them? Not everyone is as fortunate as us to live in places like north america and it would be so cool if i could help these people. this would be the type of thing that could potentially change these peoples lives forever. thats the way i want to be remembered, for doing good and giving back to the world.
ReplyDeleteWow that was deep. Never would of thought you wanted to become a doctor but I totally can see it. Great blog Kass!
DeleteOh my gosh Kass!! I can literally picture you being a doctor so well! This blog is actually so cute; you are so sweet for wanting to help others.
DeleteI believe that you don't have to be famous and make a huge impact on the world to be remembered positively. I want to be remembered as someone that helps, is always positive and kind. Although that sounds cheesy, it's true. I love helping others because it brings me happiness to see other people happy. I also find that being sad just makes life so much harder and worse not only for you but for others as well because it can bring them down too. That is what I want to be remembered as.
ReplyDeleteAfter I pass away, I would want to be remembered as a nice and caring person. As long as after I pass away I have made a big impact on at least one person's life, I would be happy. Whether it is my family, my friends, even someone I have only talked to a couple of times. Even if people do not remember me personally and who I am but I still managed to make a difference in their life without them even knowing it, I would be happy.
ReplyDeleteI don't really want to leave a big influence in the world such as a president or as a really important person for example Terry Fox. I'm actually okay with just being remembered by my relatives or any of my family and friend. I'd like to be remembered as a nice person who done a lot of things for my family.
ReplyDeleteThe legacy I want to leave is probably like everyone else's; to be a good person and to be known as a kind person. I want to leave a legacy that I'd be proud of and that my family would be proud of. I would love to change people's lives for the better. But of course I haven't figured out how I'm gonna do that. I want my kids and grandchildren and my parents and siblings to be proud of me. And I would like to be proud of myself and happy with my life. Hopefully I will die with no regrets and I will live my life to the fullest and be happy.
ReplyDeleteI don’t really consider myself that much of a hilarious but I do know that I make people laugh. I don’t even have to try to put a smile on my friends faces and that is something I love about myself because it makes me so happy. when I die I want to be remembered by being happy and being good at making people laugh when they’re sad. I want to get better at making my friends feel better about themselves and cheering people up. I want my funeral to be a nice experience for everyone. I mean of course no one wants to go to a funeral and no one wants to tell the story of “hey remember that awesome time at that funeral there!” but I want to have people laugh at my funeral from them remembering all the funny experiences they had with me and all of the times I made them smile and made a little impact on their life I want to be remembered for being funny and caring and smart. I don’t believe that you have to be famous popular or brilliant to be remembered. I think that as long as you live your life to the fullest and care about others around you then you will be remembered perfectly fine. In conclusion, I Just want to be remembered for being funny and for making others laugh. It’s one of my favourite things in the world.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, i don't exactly want to be remembered because since the age of ten, my life has been going downhill so i don't really want people to remember that. But if somehow life gets better, i want to be remembered by friends and family that i was the person who lived their life doing crazy and risky things. Everyone in my family has done the typical life of going to school, get a job, get married, have a family, and then eventually wait to die but i don't want to live like that. I want to go out and do crazy things in life. Go skydiving, bungy jumping, see a volcano, go snowboarding in the alps, throw a dart on a map and visit different places, etc, i want to live. I want to be remembered for living and not getting stuck with a 9am-5pm job taking care of kids i didn't even want and praying for the weekend to come. I want to do something different, live without limits and i want to be remembered for that.
ReplyDeletewhen i die i want to be remembered for the things i did that go above and beyond limits and do things that no one has ever done before or no one ever thought could be done. i want to be remembered for not just one thing but my whole life, the way i did things, or how hard i worked to achieve whatever it is i do. i am a very competitive person, so i will always work harder than anyone just so i can pass them. so what do i want to be remembered for? i don't want to be remembered for something i did or made, i want to be remembered for who i was.
ReplyDeleteWho am I to predict the future but if I have to then I would like to show an example to the future children of society to enjoy and be grateful. A lot of kids these days take everything for granted because they are blindly influenced by either their parents or other kids. I want to end that and make every kid appreciate their childhood to their limits.
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