Great questions, and an important distinction to make between fame and legacy.

I can remember coming across a post (I think around this time last year), where someone was exploring the question ‘what would you want written as your epitaph?’ from this viewpoint. The idea was to project yourself forward in time however many years it might be, and imagine you’d lived to the end of a full and rich life: then think about how you’d want other people to remember you, and how you could have that summed up in your epitaph.

One of the favourites I’d read was a three line verse that ran “Dear God, thanks for inviting me, I had a wonderful time”. I love that, simply because it makes me smile, and an epitaph that can make a complete stranger smile is a precious thing.

The one I’d really like though, is a short, simple, four word dedication: “She made a difference”. So that’s kind of what I’m aiming my life towards creating, in as many positive ways as I can manage.

Blessings

Starfire