The best legacy isn’t making people remember you. It’s making them better at remembering to be kind.

Being remembered is a small ambition next to changing how people behave when you are nowhere in the room. A name fades within two generations. A habit you handed to someone, who handed it on again, keeps running in places you never went, attached to nobody in particular and still working.

Stop measuring by whether people will recall you and start measuring by what they do differently. Be kind in a way that is easy to copy, in front of people who are likely to copy it. That version keeps going, and it never needed your name on it.