Each of us will likely have one thing we’ve done that casts the longest shadow after we’re gone. It may be something generous or hard-earned, or just as easily something accidental, set in motion by a moment we didn’t fully understand at the time.
That’s the unsettling part of it. We don’t necessarily get to choose what will be our legacy.
I’d like to think mine will be something deliberate, say, related to the cabin I built over the span of two decades. But what if it’s something else, the result of a quick mistake I’ve made that hasn’t yet come to light?
A sobering thought, that.
So I find myself hoping, quietly and somewhat practically, that my “one big thing” isn’t something I miswired out there, something set to fizzle or explode at a date uncertain.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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