By AJ Cross

What will be your legacy? What will people say of you when you are gone?

We spend our lives second-to-second, minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, and day-by-day. What is the plan for the future? I don’ t mean immedia

te. I mean a future that no longer has us in it.

What is it all for? The long hours of work, issues, struggles, relationships and triumphs of our lives.

Do we live our lives building the foundation of our legacy? Have you thought of what will be left behind and what impact you will make on the world?

How will future generations benefit from us? I was thinking that in the attempt to simply live my life I haven’t paid much attention to what the memory of me will be for others.

I have no idea what my legacy will be. I don’t know how quickly I will be forgotten. Maybe thinking of that legacy will change how I move forward. I haven’t created anything like the “internet” or biometrics, or a cure for a disease.

What will history say about me? What will history say about you?

Did Napoleon or Elvis or Bill Gates, or President Obama, or so many others of like impact on the world set out to become great? Were they seeking to be remembered forever or did they live dayby- day and just stumble into fame and recognition?

I think that we should realize that it is possible to have our names written in the stars, to see past the moment we are in, and create an impact that lasts forever.

Maybe greatness is possible for us, but not something we are entitled to.

I know that I want to leave something good and significant behind. I want to be remembered for something greater than who I was.

Find your goal for a legacy and find your place in the sky where your star will shine bright for all eternity.