What do you want to be remembered for?

Remembered? A memory has more to do with the one entertaining it than anything to do with the supposed subject of a memory. The only real subject of a memory is always oneself-called forward for our own entertainment and written to our special interests. Additionally, it's re-written slightly anew every time the memory is awakened, because our needs and perspectives are slightly different each time we call. Memory is much like that river that you can never step in twice.

To paraphrase my perspective of my own memories: Memory is a dubious drink, for the flavor changes each time you bring it to your lips. Given enough aging-from my own experience-the product is more fiction than fact-but what fact is not ripe for becoming fiction?

Then again, I cannot blame memory for the situation, for we can be assured that even the initial scribing of any event was more a record of what we encountered in the mind than in the world. "It seems there is an initial emotional response to any significant experience. Emotions being energy, and energy having mass, per the principle of linear momentum (with objects in a closed isolated system, the total linear momentum of a system remains constant), the distance between actuality and personal perception of an event will increase indefinitely if allowed to progress without intervention. Then, few things pass through this world without some form of intervention. By whatever fortune, the self [ours or those we conjure in memory] of the past is not born of immutable material." http://kathmandau.blogspot.com/2007/12/truth-is-but-resting-place_08.html

So if one is remembered, then we can be expect to be remade in infinite variations, quite often in forms that have little to do with anything that we ever imagined ourselves to be. So, am I saying I would rather be forgotten? Not necessarily. To be remembered, as the one recalling is remaking you in reflection of an expression of themselves, is actually quite an honor. They are in fact making you part of themselves. No, I am not saying to be forgotten is favorable, only that if you are remembered, be aware that you might also be remade in forms that you might find offensive.

How would I wish to be remembered?-grit my teeth and be noble-In whatever manner that best serves the need of the spirit remaking me.