Someday people will describe you in a room you’re not in. You’re writing their lines right now.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
How you get described later is built out of ordinary moments you will not remember. Nobody assembles that description from your best speech; they build it from how you were in a group project, whether you held a grudge, whether you were funny about people or at them. The material gets collected on normal Tuesdays.
Ask what you would want the first sentence to be. Then check whether this week supports it. If it does not, change one repeated behavior rather than planning a grand gesture, because repeated is the part that gets described.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
How would your classmates describe you when you are not there?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Inside jokes are a kind of legacy. Twenty years later, one word still makes the whole group lose it.
- You’ll rarely regret the trip you took on a small budget. You’ll regret the one you kept saying you’d take next year.
- Birthday candles are a scoreboard, not an alarm. Every one is a year you made it.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.