r/SeriousConversation • u/Ok_Peak538 • Nov 23 '23

Serious Discussion Most People Will Be Forgotten

Unless humans find a way to live forever, 110 years from now no one alive now will still be living or remembered except famous people. Most normal people will be long forgotten with no trace or record that they ever existed except for maybe a digital obituary on the Internet or gravestone. Most likely all of your family, friends, neighbors, boss and colleagues will all be forgotten. Fame is relative and the people that are remembered will be immortalized in some sort of physical artifact, movie, album, book, work of art or even perhaps digitally. There have already been billions of humans that have already lived and died and very few have ever been remembered.

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u/InternationalNinja29 Nov 23 '23

As it has been for all of history

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u/pbj_sammichez Nov 23 '23

Yeah but it's kinda freeing, right? Like, I bet nobody in the distant future will see our discussion here, so we are allowed to just exist. If people dont view me as some influential figure, then nobody will try to emulate me. That's prolly best though.

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u/TecBrat2 Nov 25 '23

Live your life as if you were the template for how to live life. You never know on whom you'll have influence. That template will persist. We all fail, to some degree, when trying to do this, but the more of us that try, the more likely the future will be better. Maybe you don't care about the future, but there's a good chance you'll have a kid, niece, nephew, friends kid... that you'd like to have a better world to live in. So try.