Discussion What would you most like to be remembered for? Poll

[Forever Sleep]

I know there is already a thread like this... but I saw this poll on YouTube the other day and wondered whether our results would be similar to theirs... Let's see... I'll post their results a little later in the thread. There are 506k votes on their poll so far! Doubt there'll be more than 20 here but hey ho. I'd still be curious.

 

[spoiledsick]

nothing. i wish when i die it erased me from the database. user not found.

 

[FrozenMango]

I don't want to be remembered. I want to be invisible

 

[Celerity]

Between the options given, I would choose kindness. Intelligence is nice to have but a dime a dozen compared to kindness. Kindness is held up as a virtue, but it's also often a liability in a world full of manipulators and cheats. In my (perhaps jaded) experience, passivity and lack of malice are better descriptions for most of what passes for "kindness". Being truly kind is difficult and takes an admirable commitment to one's principles.

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Nothing. I am not worth remembering.

 

[lionetta12]

I know there is already a thread like this... but I saw this poll on YouTube the other day and wondered whether our results would be similar to theirs... Let's see... I'll post their results a little later in the thread. There are 506k votes on their poll so far! Doubt there'll be more than 20 here but hey ho. I'd still be curious.

I hope people value me for my kindness and intelligence when I'm gone because it seems to be the only things of value that I possess right now and that people use me for.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Hmmm, so far- we're kind of similar in terms of results to YouTube. Their results were:

Intelligence: 13%
Wealth: 3%
Humour: 8%
Kindness: 70%
Unsure: 6%

Still- a lot in the 'unsure' category don't want to be remembered at all. Don't suspect many 'normies' just want to be forgotten about.

 

[FuneralCry]

I really don't want to be remembered, it sounds so ideal to me being completely forgotten about like I never existed at all. My existence could never be worth remembering, it's something so meaningless and insignificant that is certainly better off being forgotten about.

 

[BurningMan]

I don't think I particularly care what I'll be remembered for. I'll be dead regardless. I won't be there to witness it. I'm sure people will have good and bad things to say. I just want to be gone and forgotten really.

 

[ForsakenDial]

My creations. My artwork, designs, and stories. If I were to be remembered, I want to be remembered for what made me happy.

 

[Rocinante]

Wealth, out of those options

 

[Rainy_days]

I picked humor. Making someone laugh is one of the few things that make me feel good about myself.

 

[leaf23]

I never realised a lot of people had a similar wish to be completely erased once dead. There's a Supernatural fanfic I once read: God was the antagonist and he kept reviving Dean as a pawn in His Great Plan so the angel Castiel (who was on Dean's side) granted Dean's wish (to stop suffering) and completely erased him from every timeline, every alternate universe, every memory of him in everyone.
This is an unrealistic wish and I have no angel on my side so I chose kindness. I want to think I'm kind

 

[Wannagonow]

Definitely kindness. Humor was a close second. Regardless of how negative I feel about myself, I try to be supportive and kind to those I encounter. I'm not perfect at it. When my bipolar head isn't well, I'll spread that kindness another time

 

[clueless2dayor2morro]

i said unsure because i feel like i'm worthless and that i've never once done anything useful for anyone. i've only just consumed a part of people's lives in an attempt to make my life worth living. i've tried to find confidence in myself and tried to be intelligent. and kindness-- i've only ever been a decent human being. i feel like being truly kind is an act reserved only for those who have the left over resources to give to others. i cannot be kind because i have very little to offer. i have human decency, but that is not true kindness. and even that, no one wants charity or handouts--which i feel is often confused with kindness. i don't even know what true kindness is anymore. sometimes i wonder if kindness is just being walked all over or letting people's cruelty and pettiness go over you.

i wish i was remembered for my kindness but i don't know if i've ever been truly kind to anyone in my life. i know now that intelligence is not something that i could ever be remembered for because i've never once had an original or helpful thought. intelligence would be the second best thing because at least then it could be helpful.

 

[MothyCuddler]

Definitely kindness. Humor was a close second. Regardless of how negative I feel about myself, I try to be supportive and kind to those I encounter. I'm not perfect at it. When my bipolar head isn't well, I'll spread that kindness another time

You're doing your best <3

 

[hellispink]

I mean it could be anything, they only care when in the casket. How they remember me i couldn't care any less, f then all honestly

 

[TimetoGo!]

I don't want to be remembered. I want to be invisible

No way ……everyone wants to be remembered in a good way

 

[Lost in a Dream]

No way ……everyone wants to be remembered in a good way

Yes way. Some people just don't want to be remembered and that's fine. I don't want to be remembered either, but since I can't control what kinds of things other people remember or don't remember, I just voted for humour. It's been my main go-to for keeping up appearances around other people, even though I've been dying inside for a long time. I guess I'm a lot like Robin Williams in that sense, but I'll never be half as entertaining as he was.

 

[TimetoGo!]

Yes way. Some people just don't want to be remembered and that's fine. I don't want to be remembered either, but since I can't control what kinds of things other people remember or don't remember, I just voted for humour. It's been my main go-to for keeping up appearances around other people, even though I've been dying inside for a long time. I guess I'm a lot like Robin Williams in that sense, but I'll never be half as entertaining as he was.

Fair play mate……