As I stared off into space during biology, I started to wonder, What is going to happen to me when I die? I wasn't worried about the actual dying or even where I would go after. My concern was: Who will remember me when I'm gone? Everyone talks about how they want to be remembered as a good person, but I think right now everyone should be running around trying to actually be remembered first.
I don't want to die and that be the end,goodbye, period end of sentence, end of my story, end of me. I don't know the name of most of my ancestors, isn't that seriously depressing? How fast a name can wear out, almost faster than a pair of running shoes,which you usually throw out after two years. I don't want to be forgotten in two years, in ten years, in twenty years or even in fifty years, I want to be remembered forever. You read that and scoff. It's possible though! I kid you not! Just look in your history book, your English book, your science book or even your math book. Just look at the newspaper! There are names dropped like a rainfall. Every page leads you to a new name, a person who will now stick in your mind at least for a little while longer and when it finally leaves your mind it will enter another's because they look at the page.
How do I leave my mark? This is the question that haunted my mind during biology. This is a question often left unanswered by many. However, a few do find a way to solve the pending problem. Just think about John Hancock. I really don't know what he did as a person, but I do know that his signature is the largest on the Declaration of Independence. There are many other names on the document, but EVERYONE knows that his is on there. No one will ever forget it. Perhaps with the quill in hand he thought to himself, Maybe no one will remember what I did but my name will not be forgotten, then largely signed his signature.
Right now I have no clue how I will leave my mark. I know how I would like to leave. My main dreams are to write 1. a best selling novel that will eventually turn into a classic and 2. to help decrease and possibly even cure child/teen obesity. Who knows what I will actually be remembered by, as long as I'm remembered I'm happy.
Now the question is: How will you leave mark?
How will you write your signature?
