What is your legacy? What are you leaving behind for others? (or what do you hope you are leaving behind for others) Another way to think of this question: how do you want to be remembered by future students? Or do they want to remembered at all? If not, why not?
In my opinion wanting to be remembered is selfish and setting out to be is too, but being remembered and having a legacy is completely different. Again in my opinion a legacy is what is left after you're gone but a memory or being remembered fades over time. Us as seniors haven't lived long enough to have a legacy, it is a selfless act that inevitably helps someone else. You don't do it for attention. Just like at a soldier's funeral the flag that is handed to the widow is a symbol of their legacy. I don't really want a legacy unless I've done something worthy like if I died tomorrow for saving someone else's life, just like the teachers in Newtown, dying to save their kids' lives, that is a legacy that will live on.
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