how does it make you feel to know that nobody will have an idea who you were 100 years from now?

[Ashu]

Somehow that means nothing to me.

 

[starboy2k]

i would feel indifferent. the less people know about you, the less bullshit opinions they will have of you

 

[SVEN]

Very secure.

 

[polm]

Comforting

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

It's true.
It's a relief.
I want to be invisible and someday inevitably I will be. Hooray.

 

[ginko0]

Extremely liberating. Imma be dead, what difference would it make? It reminds me of Ikiru, a movie where an old man, after being diagnosed with cancer and confronting his mortality, builds a park for the children in his last days. After his death, men debate over his intentions, state of mind and all. The message is: even if your name and deeds were to be remembered throughout the centuries, would people really remember YOU, or just the image they'd make of you?

 

[DoomCry]

Hours will pass, days will pass, months will pass, years will pass.
In the end, everything will pass.
Nothing will remain.
Not just of us, but of anything, of anyone, of any thing.
So what's the point?
What's the point in holding on, in worrying, in hoping?

I don't care about anything — but in truth, I never have.
I don't care about existing, about experiences, about the gestures of daily life.
There is nothing in life that makes it feel appealing to me.

It was just a brief, forced parenthesis,
in which I had to endure a constant suffering
because someone decided I had to be born.
And so, without asking me, they imprisoned me here.

 

[Forever Sleep]

It doesn't really bother me. It's just the natural way of things. It bothers me more that people who I've known and loved will all be forgotten soon. They were worth remembering but ultimately, it's not really like it brings anyone back.

I'm more pleased that I didn't leave offspring to mourn me though. I've spent most of my life mourning my Mum- she died when I was 3. I'm glad I'm not burdening my would-be child with that pain. It seems better that the fewer people I am close to, the better now. It's surely better for them if they can forget me quickly.

 

[usernamesarehard]

I don't really care. I mean if you think about what'll happen thousands/ millions of years in the future, unless we manage to master space travel and can get out of this solar system eventually we'll all be forgotten once the sun swallows up the earth and all the planets close to us. Then everyone will be forgotten.

Even not thinking that far ahead, in a few generations everyone will forget people who are famous now, so we're all forgotten eventually. I mean really think about it, how many actors from the 70s, 50s, 20s do you remember? Assuming you didn't grow up around that time. The first movie was made in 1878 according to google. Do you think anyone remembers actors from the 1800s?

Eventually culture changes and all the people who cared about you will die and their kids or grandkids will stop caring too. Even history books aren't safe. I can guarantee you there are people in history books or really old scrolls that next to no one knows because only history nerds read the books they're mentioned in. We're all forgotten eventually, some sooner than others.

 

[onmywaytothebusstop]

i'm not sure why anyone should care what people think of them when their dead let alone in 100 years.