Quit the opposite: almost everyone has a 'legacy' and it's in the eyes of those who knew them for whatever reason. What makes us human is our ability to transf

Quit the opposite: almost everyone has a 'legacy' and it's in the eyes of those who knew them for whatever reason. What makes us human is our ability to transfer knowledge, wisdom, ideas (i.e. the 'light' referred to as 'lucis' in the mottos so many of our Universities) from generation to generation. Obviously sometimes there's too much egoism wrapped up in legacy, and we sometimes embellish the legacy of the wrong folks, but that doesn't make it irrelevant. The understanding that one's legacy does matter, in whatever one does, however larger or small, compels us to be better than we would otherwise. Each one of us has probably countless historical figures who've inspired us at least a little bit, without them we would not know who we are. We can't all be Newton's but we still matter.