Somewhere there’s a family tree with your name already on it. Every branch after you will hear something about you.

You are already in a record you did not write, and someone who will never meet you is going to be told what you were like. The description will be short, the way all of them are: a sentence or two, mostly about how you treated people rather than what you achieved. That is not a reason to perform. It is a reason to notice that the smallest ordinary behaviours are the ones that get summarised.

Decide the sentence you would want passed down, then do one thing this week that matches it. Keeping a promise to a younger cousin counts. Helping clean up counts.