How Would One Want To Be Remembered?

It's a very different thought which sometimes comes in every mind, some people thought on it very deeply and some took this thought very normally.

I spoke with some people on this thought and see what they actually want:

"Being dependable, calm, focused and trustworthy is how I want to be remembered if I were to die tomorrow."

"I want to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free.... so other people would be also free."

"I want to be remembered as being a thoughtful and caring person."

Post listening these thoughts from some of my friends I was in deep thought that for this type of remembrance, we should have to do the work in our life according to this, only then people will remember like this.

But here I am going to present a total different scenario which happened with one famous person on this thought will tell his name later. 

About hundred years ago, a man wake up in the morning and was reading the newspaper in the garden just outside his home, his wife was preparing morning tea for them and when she came outside she was unable to understand what happens to his husband as he was in deep shock.

She asked him again and again what happened then she put his finger in the hot cup of tea, he then suddenly came back in senses and looked to his wife and asked am I alive, She said you are totally fine but what happened while reading newspaper you are reacting like you read your death news in it.

Actually, This newspaper reported the death of a wrong person by mistake and this wrong person is him only. His first response was shock that am I here or there but when he regained his senses, his second thought was to find out what people had said about him. The obituary read, "Dynamite King Dies." And also "He was the merchant of death."

So, this man was the inventor of dynamite and when he read the words "merchant of death," he asked himself a question, "Is this how I am going to be remembered?" He got in touch with his feelings and decided that this was not the way he wanted to be remembered. 

From that day on, he started working toward peace. His name was ALFRED NOBEL and he is remembered today by the great Nobel prize.

Just as Alfred Nobel got in touch with his feelings and redefined his values, we should step back and do the same.

Please rethink about your works and doings in the life which you spent and spending after reading this post and tell me in the comment section that what you feel about the below questions:

What is your legacy?

How would you like to be remembered?

Will you be spoken well of?

Will you be remembered with love and respect?

Will you be missed?