"When someone dies, it isn’t just a corpse they leave behind. That’s actually the smallest part of their remains. The nucleus, certainly, but not the whole. Everything they did with their life which left behind some sort of tangible evidence that they existed...the choices they made, what they valued, what they were trying to accomplish spreads out from that nucleus like the spiderweb which remains long after the spider perishes.
Like a fingerprint. Or a puzzle. A baffling, convoluted mess of clues left behind which made perfect sense to the deceased, but which must be painstakingly deciphered by anyone else. Like trying to reconstruct from fossilized remains how the original creature looked, sounded and behaved. "
I know of one thing he left behind...the abuse and damage didn't slide by. He left his fingerprints on people he met and he lives on in their behaviour and patterns. I was more or less a bystander ... but couldn't shake the feeling....you could call it a thought or just a simple question...what kind of legacy will i leave behind?