Thursday, September 24, 2009

"your legacy" 1

Leaving " the third rock from the sun" is something that i have never ever really thought about. Nor is it something that I ever really want to think about. I guess when i think about how i want to be remembered there are so many different people that come to mind. They way your remembered by your family is never the same as how your remembered by your friends, co-workers, or children if you get to have them.
I guess when i think about leaving this earth there are a few key things that are EXTREMELY important to me. For one that would be fulfilling all of my goals and dreams. I would also want everyone i knew and know to be happy. Ever since I was a child i have dreamed of growing up and getting married, having a family, and living a happy life with a job i had worked very hard to get. I don't think i would ever want to leave with out this all happening. To me the way I am remembered by my family is one of the most important things. I would really want my parents to remember me as a responsible and well rounded person. As a child the have raised me teaching me everything that they know as well as giving me my personal space to find my own room to grow. My parents both taught me lessons and allowed me to learn some of them on my own. I would want my Aunts, Uncles, grandparents and cousins to remember me as that happy, outgoing crazy person I am. One thing that my family has taught me is to never judge, this may be due to them feelingits inappropiate or from them knowing that if they were to judge me they would be like OH WOW. If i get married and have kids, I would never want them to think of me as anything but caring, understanding, and grateful. One thing i have learned on my own is to be grateful for what I have and i hope that one day i can pass this lesson on to my own family. And by family i dont just mean children but a husband, i really would want to work hard at having an amazing relationship. In which my life partner could remember me as that special person, the one that made him smile or helped to brighten his day. As well i would like a husband to remember all the memories that we made together and to continue teaching if we have them children about me and the things i did and what i was like.

Another important group of people are my friends, and all the people i have met through out my life. The way they remember me is always important as well. Everyone has bad days, but i would really hope that they would be able to find a way to remember me as that one of a kind person I am. One thing I find very hard to understand about other people is how they can not smile and laugh. I always try my best to make sure the people i am around can smile at least once. Laughing is one of the most important things to me, if someone asked me what an unhealthy person looked like my answer would be no smiling and no laughing. I hope that all my friends and aquantinces could remember me as that kind of a person. I would love it if when someone thought of me they pictured a smile.

In short i would want to be remembered as a loving, hardworking, smiling, laughing, outgoing, spontaneous, overall crazy individual.

1 comment:

  1. Jen,

    I can only mark the two entries that are here. I believe the content to be quite good, but, of course, each of the 4 journals is worth 5 marks so I can only go 9/20.

    Let me know when you've added the other two and I'll reconsider the mark.

    CP

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