What is the one thing you want people to remember about you?

Day 59

Memory of a smiling face

Thank you to the social networking websites that I was able to reconnect with some of friends after over a decade. As soon as their picture surfaced, my mind reconnected to some of the old memories my subconscious mind had carried with me all these years. These were the happy reunions, but let us also think about the sad hearings. When one of the loved one has passed on these social networking websites you would see the chain of RIP posts, and prayers from acquaintance, friends and families. Through our course of life, we have acquainted with hundreds of people, out of which some people we have remembered and some we have forgotten.

So here is my question: What is the one thing you want people to remember about you?

It is an understandable logic that not everyone will have the same memory of the person, but is it possible to have a high volume of people has the same feeling about you as a person? Have you ever thought about how people have classified you as a person in the circle of life? What is that one aspect of your personality that people correlate to you automatically? What are the potential roles that you play in their life?

Sitting back and thinking about these questions, I want people to store me in their memory as “the person who always smiled”. Personally a smiling face of the person is one of the best memories a person can have about another person. It evolves a sense of happiness and I believe the memory of a smiling face to a point is contagious.

I recently came across with some people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Most of them luckily remember some of the best fascinating stories about self or their loved ones. Things brings out one good question, how would you like to remember yourself in life? What is that one thing you would like to remember about you even if you lost all the other memories about you? Do you think that one good memory about yourself would help you? How would you deal with life, if the only memory about yourself is bad?

“We may become dust someday but our memories can become the everlasting dawns.”

~Lenji Jacob 

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