Secretia has a post that you can find here about whether or not we will be missed when we are gone... I guess it depends on what ones definition of 'gone' is, but I guess I tend to think of that last trip when we cross over to the other side...
Of course I do wonder how often or if people who have been in my Life that have moved away... or gone on to other relationships ever think of me...
In the long run, maybe my son and daughter will remember me... especially at Christmas time when they hopefully will remember how much I loved Christmas... and maybe they will think of my Mom and Dad...
If you have read any thing I've written, you know that music is important in my Life... and as morbid as it may seem, I have gone about selecting music for my funeral/memorial service... I don't want to leave it to chance... I want say in what music is played...
Here are the ones I've chosen...
"Mississippi, You're On My Mind" - Jesse Winchester
Just because it's home...
"Keep Me In Your Heart" - Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon had been diagnosed with cancer... this was one of his songs on his last CD... he wanted to be remembered...
I think it would be nice to be remembered... I like to visit old cemeteries... I look at all of the headstones and wonder about what their lives must have been like... did they have great loves? Did they suffer great heart aches?? What of the great deeds or accomplishments they made??? Does anyone remember any more????
"When I Get To Where I'm Goin'" - Brad Paisley & Dolly Parton
I first heard this song on the morning of a funeral of a colleague who had died... when I hear it, I think of him...
"What A Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong
Man... could ANYONE sing that better than Satchmo?!?!?!
"Some Where Over The Rainbow" - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
I like these songs... I think that for the most part, they are very upbeat and hopeful about the future...
Does it matter that we are remembered? Maybe we like to think that it is, but in the greater scheme of things, does it matter??
I know I will never forget my Mom and Dad for as long as I live... or my best friend, Barry... and a few others...
~shoes~
What we leave behind maybe more signification that we know...for in every day lives you might know that you changed someones life but through a random act of kindness you may never be forgotten..I got one name..Bobby Neimen He doesn't know it but he changed my life...He was my councilor that said I could graduate and he helped me apply for nursing school as I sat anxiety filled...I didn't get in nursing school that time...but I did 2 years later and because of him I was able to change lives...and I never forgot him as my child knows his name...and I think I would do him proud to know that I went on to get my MBA all because he believed in me!
ReplyDeleteShoes...I might just remember you!
Does it matter no not really, but I hope that I will be remembered every once in awhile by the ones that I would remember.
ReplyDeleteYour music choices say so much, I really liked them. Especially "What a Wonderful World!"
ReplyDeleteThanks, Secretia
I think we all want to leave something behind to make people think of us when we are gone. IF we are just forgotten when we are gone then what was it all for?
ReplyDelete* Hi there, 'Darn Girl'... did you get my email? I hope you tell him how his encouragement helped you... what a great story! Thank you for sharing it with me...
ReplyDelete* Hi there, Bath... yeah, I think thats my concern as well... will they remember?? I dunno... *shrugs*
* Thank you, Secretia... yeah, 'What A Wonderful World'... as troubled as I feel sometimes, I love Life and do enjoy it so... the students here comment that when they see me that I always have a smile on my face and a greeting for them... if one is enjoying Life, that's difficult to fake...
* I know, Tee... 'Is That All There Is?' Hmmm... sounds like a song... ;o)
It like my post on my Grandmother last year... She died in 1929... I have no idea why her Life and her existence is SO important to me... but it is...
~shoes~