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One of my philosophical axioms is I do not want to be remembered by name. I only want the impact I've had on the world to be my memory as it ripples through time. Doesn't have to be big... Raising good kids, planting a single tree, or it could be big. But everyone can't do big things, so take what you can, try to do something impactful in some way as often as you can, something that's in your nature to do.
Reminds me of when I made a meme criticizing one of the rules of !mentalhealth@lemmy.world that stated that posts mentioning suicide is not allowed, and the mods actually changed the rules. Remembering that event makes me feel slightly more hopeful for the future.
For context, this is the post: https://reddthat.com/post/1360444
This is the mod response after someone crossposted my meme: https://reddthat.com/comment/1578405
Small impact, but I hope that Lemmy is better, even if just slightly. Maybe a Lemmy user in the future is in need of help and with that rule change they can now feel safer to talk to people there. I wish I had the power to do more impactful things, but I'm currently way too depressed to actually do anything.
It's a spiral, you have to do something or it will get worse. Go eat a piece of fruit, take the seed, and sprout it, grow it big enough and then put it in the ground somewhere. That should take you a couple of years. One day, some people are going to stumble upon an out of place fruit tree, they're going to wonder about the person that put it there and they're going to eat from it and it will nourish them. If you can't come up with the motivation, then just do it because I said so.