Are you afraid of being forgotten?

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ProCoffeeAntiSleep · Accepted Answer

Its really the deepest fear that isn’t it. I don’t know if I think much about what will happen after I’m dead, but I worry a lot about ex-friends and friends now who one day I won't know anymore.

Its strange, it shouldn’t be a thing, but when you meet people who where your best and closet friends years ago and now have lives so independent of you, to me it feels like being dead. I know thats extremely narcissistic, but its rare to experience life without yourself and something that you are so familiar with to continue existing and changing without you is very surreal. I don’t know if I would call it a fear, I don’t think we can conceptualise death enough to fear it, but its probably the closet feeling

Exterminatore · Accepted Answer

No. I think of my great grandmothers. I never met either of them. 2 generations from now no one who is a descendent of theirs will even know who they were. At the very best perhaps one will be into ancestry and know a name and a few dates but no one will know of their personality or what kind of person they were. I think because of this we’ll all be forgotten anyway.

Smoke-n-Growls · Accepted Answer

Nope.

It's not something within my control, nor is it ultimately important.

Besides, if I live my life the way I do, making my loved ones happy and occasionally bringing a smile to a stranger by making them laugh, I'll be that pleasant little spot in their memory.

They might not remember *me*, but they'll remember how I made them feel. That's what's most important to me.

Alyssa11 · Accepted Answer

I’m not sure in what way you mean forgotten here. If it’s after my death, I’m not afraid because people live and die every day. That’s life lol. If it’s forgotten by my loved ones - I don’t think I’ll ever be forgotten by them. I’m too much to forget lol.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Ultimately, we will all be forgotten. It's a bummer realization but it's true.

Sonorous · Answer

No, that thought actually makes me happy.

Azaelia · Answer

Yesss. I don't want people to forget me cause I'll never forgetting people who enter in my life. Everything they did to me even good or bad it is I will remember it bcs that is how life are. Even if I die, I want them to remember me for being exist in their life.

weeee · Answer

Id rather be remembered by the people I hold close to me. They would remember me for me, a person.

Contrast that to being remembered as 'that guy who did x thing' by a bunch of randoms and thats your place in human history.

Does that mean im not going to try and do 'x thing'? No. I will. Not to be remembered, but to have an impact. Im fine if no one ever remembers my name and im forgotten. What i wouldn't like is having my work, be forgotten

Soremain · Answer

Quite the opposite. It only stresses me out if I know someone is thinking about me or something I've said. The most peaceful moment I experience is when I wake up and I have no notifications anywhere and I know no one is expecting anything from me.

AmandaYVR · Answer

No. If it was a major fear, I would have maybe felt more inclined to have kids. That's one of the main reasons people have them. I accept that no one will know me or remember me, one day.

Tiptoetamm · Answer

No I'm not. I'm afraid of being remembered for the wrong thing

Levi4444 · Answer

No, I think that isn't something important enough to fear or even dwell on, in my opinion.

connemara_crocodile · Answer

No, I'm happy to reach people during my lifetime. After I'm gone they can throw me in the bin and move on 😂

Titanya · Answer

No, I'm not afraid. I'm comfortable in my existence whether I'm known, remembered or not. Sometimes we value others opinions of us too much

MCheetah · Answer

A bit, yeah. But I don't intend to let that happen. Unless I suddenly get killed. That would really suck.

Mofunfour20 · Answer

No because my music is online. If thanos snapped and I was gone, people would remember my legacy

Arcreactor81 · Answer

No I think it's better if someone forgets about me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lorenzomichael · Answer

Actually I wouldn't mind for some people to forget me altogether. But that's not going to happen. However I think I'd find it more meaningful if I knew that I was missed instead of remembered.

Pj1981 · Answer

I'm not. When I die I would be perfectly happy to not enter the thoughts of anyone. No need to laugh, cry, or reminisce. Just move on.

rcljr · Answer

No, when my time comes just toss me in the landfill or feed me to the sharks, I won’t care

humanearth · Answer

Dont care, we all get forgotten at sometime. Granted they are a few, like George Washington

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Looking at how the world is like meanwhile - I can't care less.

_Troian_ · Answer

Meh.. just trying to live my life good as possible. If someone forgets me except my family then I won't care, that won't benefit me.

TomBham · Answer

Nope,  I will not be there to care, so why even bother now?

Marhaban-1 · Answer

No when I'm dead but when Im alive yes but it's not an active fear

AdithyaR · Answer

Depends. I'd want to be remembered for my work. I don't care if don't remember me as a person.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

That’s kind of impossible I think, and no I’m not. Besides, I’ve already begun to make something that can’t be.

Nikki6t6 · Answer

Not necessarily of being forgotten in the long term… it’s dying alone that I think about at times.

Tunasub · Answer

There are times that I would like to be... that's a fact Jack! (Bill Murray, Stripes)

Relux47 · Answer

I’m still alive and people forget that I even exist

This_Is_My_Opinion8 · Answer

Not really. I know I won't be by the people who care.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

Yeah but I’m more afraid that there is nothing after death

anylolone · Answer

I'm afraid of being remembered. Heaven is oblivion.

Slim57 · Answer

Nope even though I feel worthless at times i know i have many friends and family who cherish me for whatever reason

Smegskull · Answer

More afraid of forgetting than being forgotten but yes

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Yes, i get that feeling often but hey it's life

Rachelspiks · Answer

No, because I don't want people to remember me.

NathanDavis · Answer

no, I won't be there to realize it

EmbraceThePain · Answer

Don’t really fear it to be honest.

v666_ · Answer

Nahhhhh not even a little

najekim · Answer

Nope. I'll never be out of people's nightmares.

Katebfun · Answer

No, we are a small part of this vast universe.

Azura_88 · Answer

Only by particular people. But I'll get over it

snackthatsmilesback · Answer

By certain people, yes.

exitseven · Answer

No, I think that my kids will remember me.

cth96190 · Answer

No. I do not expect anything else.

ChiTown33 · Answer

Nah. I'm basically ignored now. It's all good.

pink_and_inlove · Answer

I think I know that it will happen.

Quidthonian · Answer

It will happen anyway.

MrJMM · Answer

Not anymore because I stopped caring.

MICHEAL9AJ · Answer

I'd like to be forgiven, but that's too difficult

InferiorElegy · Answer

Nope, it's what I want when I die.

msc545 · Answer

Of course I am. We all are.

Anonymous · Answer

I think I'd actually prefer it.

JosyJosy · Answer

No, I don't care

Daviddd5412 · Answer

Yeah I'm afraid

TrueConfection · Answer

Not really.

Anonymous · Answer

no because i know i will be

emilym12345 · Answer

We’re all forgoton.

Dude_777 · Answer

I simply don't care.

karaspara · Answer

Nope

Babygirl_S · Answer

Yes.

Supernormal · Answer

Fear doesn't exist

Fuentes · Answer

I could care less

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