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The word legacy is not just a word but a word deep in meaning. It's a word that has to do with impacts and when talking about impacts, it's a two way thing which at one point can be positive and at the other time can be negative. So, when talking about legacy, it's not ordinary but deep in meaning with its connection to the impact being made by people on other people.
One thing about life is that, our legacies will outlive us no matter how old we have lived or would live on the planet earth. Even , those people of old that have come and gone to eternity after death were no more, but their legacies still lives on. Can you remember our father of faith, Abraham, he came to this world and then died but till today with still talk about his legacies.
So, legacies is not meant for only the rich, but for everybody, both the rich and the poor. Back then, I used to think that legacy is only accustomed to the rich, but it's later in life that I got to know that it's meant for everybody. Not only that, even in the past, i used to think that legacy is only meant to be the good things done by people not knowing that those bad things done by people as well can also be called legacy.
So, there's good and bad legacies and it's also worthy of note that legacy is meant for everybody. Now it now depend on the type of legacies we all want to build and leave behind after we are no more. So, building good legacy is a choice, also, build bad legacy is a choice. So, we are free to choose which one we want to build and leave behind.
As for me, building and leaving good legacy behind has always been my priority. One thing I have got to know about life is that, no matter what we accrued to ourselves, good impacts made on others lives would surely outshine all those things thought to be legacies. Though, houses, and other properties are also good to be a good legacy, but one thing that is better is having good impact on others.
Building people and impacting their lives positively has always been my desire. Also, contributing my quota to my community has always been in my heart and thank God, with the little I have been able to gather for myself, I have always taken it out to bless and impact people around me.
Also, with my little connection with people that matters, I have also been able to raise people from their base to where they are supposed to be.
Also, via my word of advice and encouragement, I have also been able to see people through their life predicaments and having a great impact on their life. My community and the church have also been a great beneficiary of my wealth of knowledge and this is to tell us that legacy is not about money or property alone, but about those things that impact and influence others.
We have had leaders that have laid good legacies around the world, among them are, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Ghandi of India and the likes of them who has had impact and left good legacies behind even to the generation unborn.
Now, let me tell you that, we all have one legacy or the other to lay in our lifetime. And laying of legacy starts from birth. Once we are given birth to, we have already laid the kind of legacy we want to lay, be it bad or good. So, laying of legacy starts with our characters and the way we relate with others in the society.
So, it's good to lay a good legacy as both good and bad legacies will outlive all humans.
This is my entry to the hiveghana weekly prompt.
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