ToddNTheShiningSword [2015-03-25 12:44:40 +0000 UTC]

There is only one cure.

Carve something onto a rock and bury it deep underground. Maybe one day someone will find it? Maybe they won't. But the record will be there.

Actually, though, just because we're not remembered doesn't mean we didn't matter. The way I look at this, I look back at ancient people from, say, 6000 years ago. Every one of them is long forgotten, but they live on in out genes. I also believe that, as insignificant as those long forgotten people may seem now, if even one of them had made different choices, the whole world would be different.

Think about it. If that person was going to have any children at all after that choice that was altered in the timeline, they would have had a different child. The child they would have had would never have been, and would be replaced by another. That, in turn, would have automatically replaced every descendant that child would ever have had.
But what if they would have no more children, of if all of them would have died anyway? Still, the way everyone else's life around them went was impacted by their presence, so if they'd done anything different, that would have changed the lives of everyone else just enough to change the timing of all they did, plus possibly a great number of other things. Every child born to every person who ever knew that nameless individual from the past could be different. Imagine how big the effect of that could be 5000 years after the change.

And all of that is just assuming different sperm fertilize the same eggs, and nothing else in anyone's lives would have been changed by a different choice, but of course, one different choice could do way more than that!

Nothing humans make is ever totally new. Everything we have is based on what we had before. We've all marked the world in some small or large way, and long after we're gone, the world will still be different because of us. For anyone who doesn't believe one person has any effect, have someone from 5000 years in the future go back in time and remove that one person, then go back to the future and observe the effects. No one may remember any of us markers, but our marks are everlasting.

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Heather-Chrysalis [2012-10-17 21:37:19 +0000 UTC]

I don't want to be forgotten either...I know there won't be another person in the history of the earth who is like me with my scars and memories, talent and love...I guess that's why I write and wrote my book, so I'll be remembered through my poetry. My poetry is my elogy, my epitaph, how I want to be remembered...I believe that everyone is important and has a significant role to play even though it may be obvious to them...

I also just read you comments to Kileandra, and often I live in the past too, and that brings a lot of sadness and regret for me...and of course I live in my imagination, a world of my own where I am a mermaid and am in love with a vampire...

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KJ-Illustration [2012-08-31 15:23:10 +0000 UTC]

It's sad, almost harsh to see it so plainly written here, but you're right - one day all our evidence that we were here would be gone...
To be honest, I don't think about this that much, somehow I always live very much in the now, like when people ask 'where do you see yourself ten years from now', I never had a true idea, still don't - I just have a goal I try to follow.

Just know one thing, I would think of you often, like I do now Which reminds me, it's been ages since you send some words into my direction! Please, bombard me!

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Sammur-amat [2012-08-30 15:48:03 +0000 UTC]

Very harsh yet I dare anyone to deny the plenty truths found here

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Rangamatanga [2012-08-28 00:47:47 +0000 UTC]

Wow, so simple yet so emotional. What is always on my mind is now out in words. This is just so, beautifully tragic. I am left speechless.

Brilliantly done

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