LEGACY

November 4, 2021. No. 56

“A blink in time, just a fraction of eternity - like a microdot in human history - is the signal that reaches you on every page. Who knows how long a gesture, a fleeting message from a mortal, can last in the existence of another? Sometimes years of life are erased by a slap of oblivion; others, a brief impression lasts forever — that mental frame that affection treasures forever. Which of the luck will these strokes run? I cannot predict it, nor can I ambition it. It puts the soul on paper, who is satisfied with a touch of good in your days, and only aspires for a taste of deep honey to remain on your lips if by some necessity or chance, one day you name as if in passing, a...” The Illustrated Devil

A few days ago I'm starting my articles, with these entries that this beloved author makes in his book. For me it is a bible, I always take it for consultation, to continue my life as best as possible in different situations. Today, better impossible that enter the topic that we are going to discuss.

These days I have talked with some around here on the platform, about the need to leave a legacy, something that identifies us in the future, when we are no longer there. Conversations with @Jane and @Peter-Molnar, about the urgency of leaving a mark in history, that makes our future generations remember us.

I have dreamed of 2140, I even wrote an article about it, the day the last BTC is mined. It would be a good legacy, to leave a wallet to our relatives at that time, over time, and that it can only be unveiled in that year. It would be writing to the future, to the uncertain. We are not sure even if our dependency went that far. But you may remember that your relative from the past has left a portfolio of different currencies, which can only be unveiled in that year. I imagine @PVMihalache leaving his future generation his entire investment portfolio or at least part of it. It would be a good way to be remembered forever, or at least for the next century.

Making a family tree is the best we can do. I've been trying to make one for years, but I don't understand why I don't just start developing it. It will not be easy, but the first thing would be to gather photos of all my relatives, and furthermore if my grandparents have photos of their grandparents. Imagine that, if they exist, then it would be the starting point until possibly the year 1900. Pretty impressive isn't it? Perhaps until 1890 more or less we would have a reference. And all of this could be just by trying. Later, as time progresses, the more difficult it will be.

What can we do to avoid being erased from existence, just over 100 years from now? It is best to create a legacy. But doing it is not easy. Leaving your mark on history is something that only a select few can and find a way to enter. I think the easiest thing would be to write a book, it is what we have within everyone's reach. Do something moderately good, and try to polish it up with specialized editors. Then get it published, and then immediately after, you'd be in the story. The other entries in the story are more complex and difficult to reach. But nothing is impossible.

It terrifies me to think that I will be forgotten in the future and that my descendants do not know that I existed in 2021, right now, that I am writing these lines. Perhaps if read.cash remains for eternity, which is what we all hope, that it lasts forever, then our future generations would have here a magnificent legacy, our way of seeing the world and how we present ourselves to it. This idea was suggested to me by Peter when he told me that he was writing to the future here. Perhaps it is the best way to be remembered.

It is that this feeling is something natural, it makes us human. We are passing through on earth. We are mere mortals trying to survive an average of 90 years. After that, you will be dust and your memories will remain with those who loved you at some point in life. Later life goes on, and eventually, you will be completely forgotten. This my friends, it's the scariest thing that exists for me, it's like you've never existed. Sad but true.

What sense would it make back then? I really don't know much. The love that a family member of mine may have for me in the year 2140, who remembers my name, or watches the odd video of mine, or reads these writings, I don't know if it will help. Surely he will live his present, and since I am an extremely distant past, and only a memory that never existed for him, because I do not know what I am looking for. Perhaps it is the fear of death itself, the fear and terror of being forgotten.

That is all for today. We continue to create our legacy. We're on our way to 1 BCH.

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