"What would you like to be known for if/when you go down in history?"

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What type of thing would you like to go down in history for? rebellious/hero/saint/miracle/other

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"I would really like to be remembered as a Saint."

by KingofRandomCrap on Apr 13 2007 (34 months ago)

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I know that this isn’t likely but the lives of Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II have been a great inspiration to me and while I’m not worthy to carry their shoes I would like to be remembered by those who knew me as being at least somewhat like them. Saintly behavior is something that we should all aspire to but few of us ever achieve that goal and I’m sure that the two people I have already listed would agree. Still despite the unlikelihood of being remembered as a Saint it is my wish that I at least be remembered as a person who tried to make this world a better place.

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"Not sure I want any fame, but if I had to be remembered, I'd like to to be for just being a "good person""

by Tundra on Apr 15 2007 (34 months ago)

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An Alaska example that springs into my mind thinking of this questions is 4-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher. Susan was famous, meeting people and traveling the world because of her fame, yet when she was diagnozed with leukemia (a type of, actually), what made her eventual death poignant wasn't her fame. Instead, it was her smile and that she gave up all that at the height of her fame to raise two incredible daughters and had a husband that adored her. People like George Lucas and Bill and Melinda Gates attended her funeral, but it was the image of Susan as mother that made the lose so hard to take, not Susan the athlete, one who inspired the saying "Alaska, where men are men and women win the Iditarod."

She certainly "lives on" in the smile of her oldest daughter, an eleven year old that undertook an across Alaska dog sled trip at Iditarod time with her father and friends, and in the inspiration she gave to the women of the Iditarod, so maybe I would rephrase my summary answer to "I'd like to be remembered as a good person who made a difference."

Susan Butcher and that famous smile:

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