Tools get passed down because someone cleaned them and put them back. Legacy is mostly maintenance.

Things last because of small, boring acts repeated. The reason a grandfather’s tools still work is not sentiment, it is that somebody wiped them down and put them in the right drawer a few thousand times, and the same holds for friendships, teams and skills. Nothing survives on the strength of how much it was loved. It survives on upkeep.

Pick one thing you want to keep and do the maintenance this week rather than the grand gesture: clean the gear, put the tools back, send the text that keeps a friendship current. Fifteen minutes done regularly beats any big effort you make once.