Me favorite CSNY song.
Everyone got something to offer.
We all be made up of experience and memory and that makes each individual person roaming this earth far more unique than anything produced by the hands and minds of any life form on this planet. Kanrei over at the Lemming House once put it this way:
"The average ejaculation consists of around 250 million sperm cells. This means that the person we were to become had to overcome the odds of 1 in 250 million. The odds of winning the lottery is somewhere around 1 in 14 million. This means that I overcame greater odds than winning the lottery almost eighteen times to be who I am today. How could I possibly feel like a loser winning against those odds? Guess what, you overcame the same odds. How could anything ever be impossible after overcoming a 1 in 250 million shot?"Me had to use he words cuz there just not be a better way to say it. There ya are! Even iffin ya find it hard to believe, Ozzy Osbourne, Charles Manson, Brittney Spears, Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Edison and Ichiro Suzuki; made from the same star stuff all prevailed the same odds to walk the razors edge.
That being said, me figgers that no matter how much fame or infamy one might acquire in the process of livin one's life, there be a certain satisfaction of sharing what knowledge you have gained. There be a desire to make certain that the footprints we leave in the sand ain't washed away by the rolling surf of time.
Some through progeny.
Some use art.
Some with invention.
One way or another we all take part.
How will you insure yer immortality?
Me no writ in stone.
13 comments:
I'm going to ensure my immortality by living forever!!! So far, so good.
I once told someone that I have lived forever simply because I cannot remember a time that I was not a part of. If I think back as far as I can think, I am still there. Every memory I have, I am in. Therefore, I must have always been here. One would think I would remember not being here, wouldn't one?
I am so honored that you quoted me, and more honored that you remembered that quote. I forgot saying it. I still live it and feel it, but I forgot actually writing it down. It was great to read those words again. Thank you.
I have no desire to achieve immortality. I'm here. I'm gone. It's only a name. Frankly, I like "Corn Dog" better than my real name.
I make an excellent chocolate chip cookie- I think I'll be remembered for that.
I guess I need to breed more.
I just hope my infamy doesn't linger into immortality.:)
scary-maybe i'll just have to do what i currently do...live vicariously through tif!
This sounds smarmy and fake, but make of it what you will: I try to share kindness and love so that more might grow where I've been. That's my plan for immortality.
VE~ Good attitude. Me likes the way you think, buddy.
Kanrei~ Cogito ergo sum. Cartesian thoughts work fer me too.
Corn Dog~ With a name like that, you already be immortal. In the futere when historians are searching for the creator of this ubiquitous snack they will atribute it's creation with you.
Duchess~ You make chocolate chip cookies?! Me be comin over with a quart of milk. Get bakin, baby!
Enemy~ If ya start to breed then you'll have to change yer blog name, won'tchya?
SJ~ Yer particular brand of infamy should be bronzed and displayed in front of institutions where intelligence and sensibility are of the utmost importance.
Libby~ tif? Me not sure what that be, but iffin it keeps ya bouncin then go for it!
STOMPS
TGF~ Not such a bad idea at all, me dear. That's good stompin.
namaste.
How will you insure yer immortality?
I don't even think about it. Seeing as how my immortality would be of the utmost importance only to myself, I don't care so much what happens to it once I'm not around to enjoy it.
I cloned a little of my DNA so I have a few more years. Plus, I'll be back again.
My oldest son (12 at the time)had a fear that he would die and no one would remember him. I told him that he would always live in the memories and stories of his family and friends..blah blah blah... he looked at me unimpressed and said yea, but you all are going to die too! Hummm... so I promised I would write a book all about his life and pay to have it published. He was fine with that.lol
I LOVED the passage you quoted. It is oddly uplifting! hehehe
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