Writer’s block. Trying to get something out. Trying to get some content on this blog. This a attempt to put down some thoughts and feeling about my father? A good man. I’m not sure why I am doing this. Part of me whats to create some sort of small virtual legacy for him. On the other hand in the long run I don’t think anyone would really care. I think about the longevity of this site once I’m gone. Thoughts and ideas on how to keep this site going for ever and ever. My father once told me, maybe more than once, that your children are your legacy. He also said nothing last for ever.
I had the thought to tell him, “but your children don’t last for ever”. I thought about it some more, and in a sense I agree with him, but the catch is your children have to have children. I do not. Then I started think about it from a biological perspective. When you have a child with someone, even though there are DNA attribute of each parent in the child’s DNA, that DNA is a unique DNA strand of its own. Which is good, but my philosophy is that at some point the your “DNA legacy” gets buried deeper and becomes not so apparent generation after generation.
Of course that doesn’t mean its not there. It is just faint. That also doesn’t mean strong attributes of great, great, …, great grand[father, mother] could not arise later down the road. Then again it has a greater chance of being a mystery to those alive and dead, than it is to be noticed. In my opinion of course.
Writer’s block. Trying to get something out. Trying to get some content on this blog. This a attempt to put down some thoughts and feeling about my father? A good man. I’m not sure why I am doing this. Part of me whats to create some sort of small virtual legacy for him. On the other hand in the long run I don’t think anyone would really care. I think about the longevity of this site once I’m gone. Thoughts and ideas on how to keep this site going for ever and ever. My father once told me, maybe more than once, that your children are your legacy. He also said nothing last for ever.
I had the thought to tell him, “but your children don’t last for ever”. I thought about it some more, and in a sense I agree with him, but the catch is your children have to have children. I do not. Then I started think about it from a biological perspective. When you have a child with someone, even though there are DNA attribute of each parent in the child’s DNA, that DNA is a unique DNA strand of its own. Which is good, but my philosophy is that at some point the your “DNA legacy” gets buried deeper and becomes not so apparent generation after generation.
Of course that doesn’t mean its not there. It is just faint. That also doesn’t mean strong attributes of great, great, …, great grand[father, mother] could not arise later down the road. Then again it has a greater chance of being a mystery to those alive and dead, than it is to be noticed. In my opinion of course.