The person who taught you to drive will never be famous. They might be the reason you’re alive. That’s legacy too.

Some contributions are enormous and completely unrecorded. Whoever sat beside you while you learned to handle a car passed on judgement that may keep you safe for fifty years, and no account of their life will ever mention it. Most of what makes people’s lives better arrives like that, one person teaching another in a parked car. Scale and significance are not the same measurement.

Think of somebody who taught you something that quietly protects you now, and say so to them. Be specific about what they handed over. Then notice you can pass something similar to somebody who does not have it yet.