Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What would you like to be your legacy?

To elaborate...

That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman

What do you want your verse to be? In prose, or just in words...

Thank you everyone for your answers in these QotD posts of mine :D

Comments

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read A Wrinkle in Time? Your Whitman quote made me think of Mrs. Whatsit, one of the guide characters, comparing life to a sonnet: a structure within which one was complete freedom to express whatever one chooses.

Anyway, my answer:

I would like my legacy to consist mostly of a few children of healthy mind and body who go out into the world and become good people. The world needs more of those, I think.

If possible, I'd like it to also include a well-liked novel or two and some poetry. I'd like it very much if any of them brought someone joy the way the work of so many authors and poets has brought me joy.

I'd also like to think that any brilliant mathematical discoveries that Mr. Bill comes up with will be partly to my credit, as well. They'll come out of his brain, but I am partially responsible for making sure his brain remains in working order, so I will secretly give myself some of the credit for them, too.

Mostly, I'd just like to leave the world happier than I found it, through whatever means I can. If the only legacy I leave is a few lines of verse in a forgotten anthology somewhere, I will be well pleased as long as they make someone somewhere smile.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Nope, but I'll have to add it to my list...

:D