March 11, 2012 - How Will You Be Remembered?

We can choose to, or to not have hundreds of social interactions each day.
Passively winding ourselves into the intricate details of another life.
Leaving a mark, or perhaps not, on their brain.
We each have a song, or at the very least a note
Similar only to us, ourselves.
When it plays, it echoes the sound of our soul
What does that note sound like to others?
Is it dissonant, a minor chord, a major scale?
Does it leave a cold chill in the spine of others
or a warm welcoming; like the hit of a whiskey sour during a brisk winter night?

When our bittersweet lives have ended who will come to watch us depart?
Will they write words of praise or hatred? Will they write at all?
How will we be remembered?
Will ordinary suffice, or is extraordinary the only option?
Siding with the latter seems more preferred
but the former is all that we can expect.
Will our story be shared with generations to come
or will it float away like dandelions blown by kids into the summer wind?
Whether its shared or lost, it exists in its own purity.
What does your song sound like?
How will you me remembered?