Even for the good memories, and for the critters and animals?
I get moods like that, usually accompanied by destruction or deletion of some thing I had a hand in.. It’d be easier not to have existed in the first place for multiple reasons.
But in lieu of that impossibility, eventually all trace of an individual fades and there’s just some mannerism or thought or imparted feeling that gets passed on without clue of origin. And someday that ends, too.
My late father-in-law would say, “no one will remember you past the third generation.” Of course he was thinking of dying when really old. But yeah, three generations, at least, would have memories of us no matter what age we die at. You are right, if one us CTB, we will be remembered for a long time and by potentially quite a few. My brain hurts…
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Even for the good memories, and for the critters and animals?
I get moods like that, usually accompanied by destruction or deletion of some thing I had a hand in.. It’d be easier not to have existed in the first place for multiple reasons.
But in lieu of that impossibility, eventually all trace of an individual fades and there’s just some mannerism or thought or imparted feeling that gets passed on without clue of origin. And someday that ends, too.
Amen. You and me both. Completely erased from history, memories, and as if we were never born. Just gone forever. Don’t want do this anymore.
My late father-in-law would say, “no one will remember you past the third generation.” Of course he was thinking of dying when really old. But yeah, three generations, at least, would have memories of us no matter what age we die at. You are right, if one us CTB, we will be remembered for a long time and by potentially quite a few. My brain hurts…