Rememberance

Keegan Ruddy
Topic of Choice
Being remembered

What does it take to be remembered in the history books? Do you have to have a life story like that of Edward Bloom in Big Fish? Do you need to win a World Series? Do you need to give a speech that changes peoples views and live? Plenty of people have done one of those things and been remembered. Plenty of people have done one of those things and been forgotten too. What constitutes a life to remembered? These questions can haunt a man. The thing of it is, they might not stop bothering a man's mind until that man drops those questions and realizes the answer is simple. Did he do all he could with what he had? That does not mean perfection, because perfection is unobtainable. Rather it means did he give his best effort through all the causes he stood for and were the causes he stood for just and for others rather than himself. Those things are all very general, but are true. A selfless man is better respected than a selfish man. A man working for a good cause rather than a bad cause is respected. A man giving great effort as opposed to no effort is also respected. These are true across the board. Society would agree with all those statements on the whole. Therefore, a life to be remembered is simply a life lived, rather than spent worrying about being remembered.  In the end, the idea of being in the history books is selfish and a man who is remembered is one who probably does not care about that. They just want to serve God and His children while on this earth.