“You’re not going to be remembered. After a third or fourth generation, he said, you didn’t exist for all intents and purposes. And over the course of a thousand years or human history, there’s probably 500 people, maybe a thousand at the most. Whose names, whose existence are known and remembered, it’s true, isn’t it. Not to make you sad, to make the best of the time you have on this Earth with your family and friends, because that’s all it’s going to matter. “
Very well said.
I heard him say that. It’s so true. We just live in a tiny sliver of time in this world.