Life is what it is

When you are young you think there is so much time that you end up wasting it. As a person ages your thinking changes. I remember when I was 21 I thought there was so much time and it seemed like I would live forever.

Now many years later my mother is dying in the hospital. It seems the finality of life has caught up to me. The realization of the end is something the brain has trouble with. I wonder if animals think of the finality of life as they live their lives.

I read today that Elon Musk states there is a one in a billionth chance we are part of an alien computer simulation. So if this is true then The Matrix movie carries on a whole new meaning for me. The Big Bang Theory seems to be full of meaningless theories of how we came to be. I am not a scientist; but from a philosophical standpoint it seems meaningless to think we exist only because of some freak accident and our existence will cease with another big bang ie. asteroid collision with Earth.

Life and death as it is seems is so meaningless. On the one hand if our lives have meaning for others then our legacy should live on long after our deaths. Our children will remember us and maybe our grand-children; but then who knows after that.

What I am getting at is this: leave a legacy so your memory will live on. There are plenty of examples of people in history who left incredible legacies so even hundreds of years after their deaths we still remember them.

Can you name some of them?