Burntwaffle VA Politics and Pie
10/30/12 6:38 pm
Lol my great-great-great grandpa owned a plantation with slaves in the 1800s. So now a major league baseball player has my last name. (At the time,slaves were given the last name of their owners)
Harrith2
10/29/12 6:49 am
You have to envy the optimism of the youth. Go get your dreams and don't let anything slow you down...
bop
10/29/12 6:20 am
Many people aren't even aware of their impact on others. For instance, I watched a guy save an old lady's life yesterday. Tat affected her, definitely, but also I and fellow onlookers. (I would have helped but he beat me there --- fine with me, I would have messed it up haha)
bop
10/29/12 6:18 am
Half the people are deluded? No, I don't think so. People have out of family relationships. People think of excellent ideas and that changes something small but still makes a change. People can save others lives without even knowing if a person is suicidal and you're simply nice to them.
Destroyer Instillation 04
10/28/12 11:04 pm
Depends on what is meant by lasting. As a physical therapist, I would impact others lives. But I doubt I would leave any truly lasting reputation. I will, however, leave a legacy in my children. That would be a lasting impact.
jeffro02
10/28/12 12:14 pm
Lots of delusional people out there. While you will make an impact on the people around you, it will not be lasting on the population as a whole. How many people who died 100 years ago do we actually talk about? Very, very few.
omniku ...
10/28/12 10:54 am
Thousands of years from now, future historians will salvage the SOH comments board from the ruins of our civilization's data and each and every one of these comments will be as historically impactful as the Rosetta Stone. So if you chose "no" go back and change your answer to "yes".
Lumineer
10/28/12 10:16 am
In the end, nothing really lasts. This world will be burned by the inevitable explosion of the sun, or if something else gets us first. But, I still yearn for my existence to affect others. To be remembered. To have purpose. Even if I'm not some ridiculous celebrity, I hope I help someone
twotired
10/27/12 11:16 pm
I'm in retail management. I look at my job as more of a people developer than as a manager. Getting talented people in to positions where they succeed is an awesome feeling.
10/27/12 10:01 pm
All of these people may not know where the effect came from, and indeed someone else effected us to bring us to this point.
10/27/12 9:59 pm
All you folks that say that these people think too much of themselves are looking at this in the wrong way. I don't think any of them believe that they are going to be remembered by name for all of time. Anyone who works with people will effect some of those people and they will effect other people
monkeyballs Cuba City
10/27/12 7:11 pm
I have a penis neither large or small but girthy. I have had sex with 4 ladies. I was good with 2 of them. I hope the men who are with the ones I was bad with appreciate they don't have to work as hard. To the others I am sorry I hope you make them squirt too.
10/27/12 6:54 pm
Who knows. I hope so even if I'm not remembered by name...a butterfly flaps its wing in Texas....
danno9
10/27/12 5:57 pm
I would like to think the 20 years I served in the military and the hard work I did keeping the linear accelerators in the cancer center up and running helped some people out. Now I am a completely unproductive retired citizen living off the government and my IRA.
stevetinfc Oregon
10/27/12 4:34 pm
This is a REALLY great question! Yet I have always framed this question differently. It's not "will my life have impact" ("about me" mindset), but rather "will I make a positive impact in the world" (external focus).
WanderLost over the rainbow
10/27/12 3:08 pm
We all can impact people hugely. Sometimes I'll be having a bad day and a compliment is all it takes I turn it around. It's so easy to do something nice for someone else and you never know what they could be going through. Who knows you might just save their life!
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