“There’s a day coming when no one will speak your name again.” This Psychology Today article title stopped me for a moment today, and I’m grateful for the pause to consider what true connection and love and legacy is… via /r/gratitude

The article touched on the ways the people that are left or come after us will remember our name.

Someone might have a far-reaching legacy because of accomplishment or the like, but the references to your name after you are gone would not be from personal experience of you as a human. Expanse does not equal depth.

Thinking not about "if" you will be remembered or for how long, but "why" you will be remembered, changes the way we live today.

What impact does your desire for the kind of legacy you value have on how you approach your relationships, treatment of those around you, and the connections you have with other people?

I am so grateful to read things like this, and realize a value I have for the depth of my connections, the nature of them. I hope my name really only lives in the minds and hearts of a few people who knew me, and for reasons being that my name and memory is something maybe sweet and loving and real, if I am so lucky, if I do it right.

Grateful, every day, for the chance to be this person.