I thought about this last night. I was discussing a former employer last night with someone who works at my husband's current job. I was with this auto importer for almost 12 years and all of the work I did there is history, in the garbage basically. Life now is just futile.

Yeah, that's life, I guess....

I'm fine with it. As long as I do what fulfills me and helps others in my lifetime, I'm OK with being "thrown away" when that time comes.

Here today gone tomorrow :-) Don't look at it that way, you gained life experience and knowledge which makes you wiser than many in the line of work you were involved in. Cheer up! :-)

Now I'm really sad..thanks:(

No I disagree - My Children will carry on with what I've done and haven't done

Not everything...you can sow seeds for eternity. You can teach your children, love others, help others...as a Christian, I believe that love lasts forever...so if I love, then it will never end up as trash or be thrown away as useless. My body and my achievements are nothing in comparison to love.

I do think of this and I have come to the conclusion that I don't need everything that I see. I have come to appreciate what I do have or what I have done because it has meant something to me at some time and I never want to forget that.

Doesn't really matter to me. What I did after I am gone isnt important..what I do while I am here is what matters.

I feel happy with my simple life and my simple love of family and friends.

I am sorry, but your statement is not true in many cases, for example: Artists Musicians Authors Poets Architects and many other professions. Some of what I have accomplished will always be around also. People who create and raise children leave behind a "legacy" that lives on also. So I feel fine with it, since your statement might be true for you but it is certainly not true for many people. Sorry you feel that is true for you. If you want to change that, do something that will not be thrown away in your lifetime and will continue to "live on."

Grab a Flex-Steele trash bag and lets go for it.

It's okay. I made two good kids and have done work that made me feel as though it was worth something both to me and to other people. We each get a turn to live and then have to turn the place over to the next lot. We live in a wonderful age of the world, easier and more rewarding for us than earlier times were for the people in them. It's a great life. No one should want to live forever. I like the psalms as poetry -- 103:15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 103:16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

i dissagree,look just at what we are doing here at answerbag.we are sending out waves of opinions to over 140,00 members,and every one of those members knows dozens of people that they talk to every day.who knows that one answer that a person has given might improve hundreds of lives.i think that we are all more valuable and important than we give ourselves credit for.

Here's something that won't go away. Kindness. You show it to people, it catches on. It really does, it's like a beautiful virus. I've seen my kindness prompt others towards kindness...that just keeps going. There is nothing like it.

as the song goes, all we are is dust in the wind.

Nothing lasts forever. I must disagree that all will end up as trash. As just one example think of the medical advances that have been made by people that will go on long after their death. Does polio, smallpox, and other ailments come to mind? I do agree though that in the end we are thrown away, but in many cases not our accomplishments.

Don't share your point of view, so I feel like disagreeing.

i don't care that what I do will not last forever on earth, my deeds and actions will be remembered in the afterlife.

In a way there's something slightly liberating about it. My Mum always used to tell me when I got wound up about something or started cursing myself "In a hundred years time it won't matter." So everything I do, eventually will be thrown away, everything I'm proud of, everything good - well that's kind of shouldn't stop you enjoying being proud and appreciating it while you can. At least whatever it is exists now. It also means that everything I manage to f*ck up in my life, eventually, will also be forgotten - and that in itself is quite re-assuring. You know, we don't know why we're here, or if there even is a reason, or if it's all just some weird random accident. But ultimately even if there isn't a reason, giving up means as little as keeping going. You can't throw the game when there is no game. I think you just have to get what you can out of life, make what you can, do what feels important at the time - and not worry too much. If you can do something, one thing that makes somebody feel better just for a few seconds (even if it's just yourself) then I don't think it matters so much that it eventually gets thrown away. So I guess I'm OK with it.

Well, what I have accomplished so far in the form of school work I rather resent. Bonfire! However, my being is not defined by material things which will be lost. What I feel proud of is achieving things in the first place, not whether some posh tw*t has it framed on his wall or not.

that would make me want to jump off a bridge.

i don't agree with your question. its all about perspective my friend.

Personally, as long as I'm happy with the things that I've done, I don't really care. I don't need a legacy to carry on. You see...it's what you do with the life that you have that counts. If I can look back and be happy with the things I've done, I'm good.

things that i do will live on as long as i do. the art i make will live on as long as the people that see it. my body will burn away someday but the people and lives i've touched with touch other lives and that will carry on.

Annoyed and full of disbeliefs.

I don't believe that statement is true. What I do will always be in God's memory. It will be in things I pass on to family and friends. I will never be thrown away. I will become a part of this earth and begin again. I am the ultimate recycling. I will nevre leave this earth.

True, in the end, all that you love and all that you've done will be carried away. Which is all the more reason to really enjoy it while it's here. The only perception we have of the world is this tiny little window that we call our "Life", which is nothing compared to the vast expanse of eternity. So I plan to have some fun with my window, perhaps by chucking a carton of eggs out of it onto the heads of pedestrians passing below. But by that same token, the human race itself is only a flash in the pan, and eventually even the very concept of futility and of throwing things away will itself die along with the last of human race. If all my accomplishments are thrown away and I'm not around to see it, does it really matter? Existence is not defined by what we leave behind, it is defined by what we feel, think, and do while before we become so much flotsam on the seas of time. And even if I don't leave any lasting mark on the world, who cares? I'm having fun, I'm thinking and feeling and doing, I'm making myself and people around me happy, whether it's all trash in the end or not, that doesn't mean it's meaningless now, because it sure as hell means something to me, and probably more than a few others as well. And if it's all trash in the end, then that's all that matters.

I agree that nothing lasts forever pretty much everyone on here isn't thinking in broad ways. Any piece of art any form of music any building any knowledge you pass to or children, those same children you taught on top of their grandkids grandkids grandkids etc will not last forever. Come on people stars burn out and die die along with planets all the time all over the universe and any of you really don't think anything you do won't end up not being with no one even remembering anything of you ever existing or as poster stated "end up as trash". We get remnants of history up to 17000+ years ago for civilizations and fossils hundreds of millions of years old but all of that is just the blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. The only legacy we will leave is the light we put off which will be seen by someone or something, even if it's just rocks, far far away along time from now. Thats a response to other posts for response to how I feel about it does it really matter it'll just be pointless:)

Compost is more PC.