Well, first off, I don't want to be remembered in any bad way after I leave high school. I find this question pretty hard to answer because I have no idea how I want to be remembered. I guess I could say that I don't want to be remembered like the average kid who graduated and went to CEGEP, or to be remembered by something huge that happened to me during my years in high school. I guess I'd like to be somewhere in the middle of those two. I just hope that when I leave high school, I could look back to it, and say that I accomplished what I wanted to and that I enjoyed my time in high school.
This has been a question that I've thought of over the course of my high school years. In order to answer this I often pretend that people who knew me would talk about me in an interview in an episode of E:60. What I want to be remembered as when I leave St.Thomas is someone who is a hard worker when I need to be, but at the same time, someone who bring life/lightens up the room for the joy of it. I want to be remembered by someone who evolved into a more open minded/confident person where i'm not afraid to express my own opinion, something i was unable to do in my elementary years because i was afraid of being judged. I want to be remembered for someone who showed heart everywhere I went. Someone who would not be afraid to stand up for what he believes in, where as in elementary school I would be pushed around and stepped on. So how do I want to be remembered? Overall someone who spreads joy and works hard. Thats all. Where I could back and say: I did it
There are certain ways a person can be remembered. In the long term, the only things that anyone leaves behind are the monuments that people built to his glory, the buildings and streets named after him, pieces of art preserved and the greatness of the person’s historical contribution. Especially today, in the era of ubiquitous pop culture, conformism, mass tourism and trends, the question of how much an individual actually means is very important. The main idea of one of Pink Floyds’ most successful songs is that everyone is just “another brick in the wall”. To a certain extent I agree with this statement – individuals today are just a tiny, meaningless element in the consumerist machine. From that point of view, there is nothing a student can do to be remembered in high school, except earning titles such as “Best Sportsman in the year” or “Highest academic results”, and having his name written in the list of champions. Despite the common belief that it’s the beautiful, record holding, somehow outstanding and distinctive people that rule the world, in my opinion, it’s the individuals that are happy and bring happiness to others that are the most valuable. What’s the point of having millions of fans and worshipers all over the globe if every morning you wake up unhappy? I would like to be remembered by the small things I do and say, because to me, what forms my identity and what I leave behind in my environments is how people have viewed me - how I’ve influenced them. What I mean to others that are in contact with me is all that I’m worth, and therefore how I will be remembered. The general opinion I would like to have is hard to define, because I will mean something else to everyone I meet. Nevertheless, my goal is for everyone I will speak to in high school to have a good memory with me.
After high school, I do not want to be remembered. I would rather be known (as in the present tense) then remembered because if you are remembered then that implies a past tense and that I am no longer in the lives of those who I would care about if they were to forgot about me. Think about it, if you attend high school, then Cegep and university solely because you want to get a good career so you can earn a ton of money, what's the point? On your death bed will you be clutching your university diploma? Will you be looking at your last financial statements in those final moments? Or will you be in your garage, sitting in your car, that cost you a fortune, one last time? If you asked me any of these questions, I would not want my last minutes on earth to end by any of these ways. I would want to be surrounded by the people that care most about me and the ones I care most about. If anyone agrees with me, how come the people you care about is not your main goal now? I could not care less if I become rich because money can not buy happiness like people will provide you. Ten years from now, I would want to be able to go to parties thrown by multi millionaires and still be the smartest woman in the room regardless of my income. Maybe by writing this, I am writing the legacy that I will leave high school with. Intelligence and happiness are some of the things that nobody can ever take away from you.
To be remembered in high school you have to be a noticeable person, you have to be friends with a lot of people, you have to do things that people hear about and you have to have a personality that can be categorized. You need to fit in to a group of people that are all the same like everyone knows and will remember the people who throw parties, who went to those parties and did something stupid, they’ll remember that group of guys that caused all kinds of trouble, the really pretty girls that were friends with those guys. They’ll remember the people they made fun of, the people who everyone made fun of. Those are the people we remember, all of us, I admit that those are the people that I’ll probably remember. It’s not that you deem those whom you’ve forgotten unimportant, they’re just irrelevant, they were more or less well behave, timid, average in school and their friends were the same. These are my people. I don’t want to be remembered, I’ve never done anything memorably bad or good, I’m average in school, timid and more or less well behaved, and that’s perfectly okay with that. I don’t want people to remember me because it says to me that I did something that stood out and I’m just not that kind of person, I want to blend and not draw attention to myself because generally the people you remember in high school, you remember for all the wrong reasons.
After high school, I want to be remembered by my friends, my teachers and even the people in my grade that I wasn't very close with. By my friends, I want to be remembered as someone who was always there for them. Someone who never cared about whether they were popular, the way they looked, their sexual orientation etc... I want my friends to remember me as someone they could always talk to, tell anything to no matter what. Someone that would never judge them or make them feel bad. I want to be remembered by my friends as someone they could depend on and who made them feel good. By my teachers, I want to be remembered as a student who was hard working, intelligent, but who also was funny and could joke around a bit. I don't want them to remember me for the wrong reasons; being disruptive in class etc... I just want to be remembered as a good student who did her work and who worked hard to achieve her goals. By the rest of my grade/classmates, I want to be remembered as someone who could put a smile on someone else's face. As someone who always spoke her mind, who cared about everyone no matter what, someone who was well-respected and who respected others. Someone who cared a lot for the community she lived in and the people in it. In the end, I just want to be remembered for the person I truly am and how that made others feel. I just want a smile to come across someone's face when they think of me or hear my name.
To be remembered after high school, it is most likely because you were popular, or you had a lot of friends, you threw massive parties or you went to parties, the list goes on. Personally, I think that I am generally a shy person, I have my group of friends and I stick with them. I tend to keep to myself. Although, if I was remembered, I would want it to be for being a hard worker, and just being nice. People usually remember the worst in others, and I really hope that I would be remembered for some of my better qualities. When I finish high school, I want to be able to look back on it and be happy with what I had done over those 5 years, and if all I had done is try my best to be kind to people, then so be it, that is exactly the way I would want to be remembered, not for popularity or how many friends I had, because in the long run that won’t matter, what will matter is how you feel about your character. I want teachers to remember me as someone who was hard working and I want my friends to remember me as someone who made them laugh. Throughout high school, everyone has their ups and downs, and I can only hope that in the end, I am happy with the way it turned out, and I am proud of who I was during those 5 years.
After high school id like to be remembered as a person who was really nice and caring to everyone, even though some people may upset or annoy me, i want people to remember that i've always been nice and never mean to anyone. I want to be remembered by my teachers, classmates and most importantly my friends. id like to be remembered by my teachers as not a shy student but as a really hard worker. i believe that in everything i do i always try my best and put 100% effort in the things i do. For my classmates, id like them to remember me as someone who was always willing to help them out if they needed, someone who was nice and caring. i would never want someone to feel or think that i was a mean person. Everyone makes mistakes and i wouldn't want anyone to feel hurt if i had made a mistake. Id like my friends to remember me as someone who they could trust because i would never intentionally hurt them or do anything to upset them. i love my friends so much and i care for them all. Most people who are remembered are the popular kids who had a bad image and threw really big parties and had so many friends. in my opinion i wouldn't want to be classified or remembered that way. i would rather have a small group of caring best friends that i can trust 100% than a large group of friends that don't care. After my 5 years of high school i want to look back and feel happy and proud of what i had done within those years.
Although I have been at St Thomas for 4 years now, I still have a hard time distinguishing who are my friends and who I know I'm going to remember and who will remember me after these 5 years have ended. In school, I have the tendency to always want to go and hag around with one group of people one week and then another the next, I''ve always tried to be a decent person to hold a conversation with with the people Ive met. I would like to be remembered as someone whom you could talk to who of which there wouldn't be much discussion of the teenage norm of things. Another defining quality that I have that ties in to the question is the fact that I consider myself to often (Not always) be the odd one out in a group of people. This being said, I would like to be remembered as someone with a unique personality (that sounds really stuck-up). As much as this is a good thing to hope for, I Know from experience that alot of people will not remember my oddness in that way but rather as a negative thing.
After high school, I do not know how I would like to be remembered. I think most people that are remembered usually made a huge impact in the school and affected others; therefore being well known. It is not my goal to change others lives or simply be noticed by many. Personally, I don’t think I run with the “popular” crowd and I don’t think that it should matter whether you do or you don’t. I am perfectly happy with who I’m friends with and don’t need to be remembered to be proud and happy with memories of those 5 years I’m going to have spent in high school. I am not super unique and never did anything special to earn an important title or be known by many, and I’m okay with that. But it’s also okay if you would like to be remembered with a certain status. But personally, that’s not who I am or something I want to be remembered by. All I think really matters are what my friends are going to think of me, since they are most likely the only people that will really remember who I am and hopefully we’ll still be friends in the future so they won’t even remember me, they’ll know me. If by any chance, others or teachers or anybody remembers me after high school, I think I’d just want them to remember me by Jenna, nothing more and nothing less.
People can be remembered in many different ways. Some are positive and some are negative but most people tend to look at the negative things and mistakes you've made in life, over the positive. You could be the most amazing person in the world and make one mistake and everyone would see you differently. That's life and we need to learn to accept that because no one will ever stop judging you, no matter who you are. When i graduate from high school, I want to be remembered as the person who always made others smile, especially when they were going through tough times. I'd also like to be remembered as someone with a great sense of humour, as someone who is kind and genuinely cares for others, as someone with great taste in music, as someone with a rather outgoing but "cool" personality, as someone with a great sense of style and as someone who is very creative. Finally, I'd like to be remembered for my singing but that isn't something a lot of people know about because I am very shy to perform in front of others.
After high school, I don't want to be someone that everyone remembers. I'm not even sure if I want to be remembered at all but I guess I would want to be remembered by the people I care about (i.e. my friends) because that's all I need. I know I'm not going to be remembered by everyone because I'm a generally shy person, and not someone people will notice unless it's for a bad reason. I might not have a clear idea of exactly how I'd like to be remembered, but I know for sure that I don't want to be remembered for a bad reputation. I want to be remembered by my friends and classmates as someone who was always nice and caring. For people I don't talk to or am not close with, I'm fine with not being remembered because it will mean that they didn't have a reason to remember me for something bad I did. If that would happen, people would judge me, without even getting to know me, and unfortunately that's something that too many of us do. After high school, I'll know it was worth it if I accomplished what I wanted and if I was with my friends, not if I had left an impression on everyone I went to school with. So I guess I don't want to be remembered. Of course my friends will remember me, but I don't expect people I'm not close with to. If they do happen to remember me, I just want them to think that I was someone who was always nice and caring, and not as someone who did something bad or made some sort of mistake that no one will forget. I don't need to be remembered by everyone after high school, only my friends and people I was close with.
Right now, I honestly have no idea what I want to be remembered for. I have a couple defining qualities, but it's hard to write out what I assume people think of me without seeming ostentatious. I've heard a lot about me in the years that I've been here, not all of it has been positive, and I've always found it difficult to self reflect on my qualities and traits. A lot of people also have different impressions of me, although I have been told that I am a generally likeable person and that I give good advice. I guess everyone's desire is to be remembered by somebody, and I have to say, I feel the same way; hopefully I am commemorated in some way, although doing so would require something really defining. Not only after high school, my dream is to be exalted through time. One quote that I once heard that will stick with me forever is, "Every person dies twice. Once when their heart stops beating, and once when their name is spoken for the last time". To my peers, I hope I will one day accomplish something so that I will be revered, and to not end up like "that one guy nobody knew".
Well, first off, I don't want to be remembered in any bad way after I leave high school. I find this question pretty hard to answer because I have no idea how I want to be remembered. I guess I could say that I don't want to be remembered like the average kid who graduated and went to CEGEP, or to be remembered by something huge that happened to me during my years in high school. I guess I'd like to be somewhere in the middle of those two. I just hope that when I leave high school, I could look back to it, and say that I accomplished what I wanted to and that I enjoyed my time in high school.
ReplyDeleteThis has been a question that I've thought of over the course of my high school years. In order to answer this I often pretend that people who knew me would talk about me in an interview in an episode of E:60. What I want to be remembered as when I leave St.Thomas is someone who is a hard worker when I need to be, but at the same time, someone who bring life/lightens up the room for the joy of it. I want to be remembered by someone who evolved into a more open minded/confident person where i'm not afraid to express my own opinion, something i was unable to do in my elementary years because i was afraid of being judged. I want to be remembered for someone who showed heart everywhere I went. Someone who would not be afraid to stand up for what he believes in, where as in elementary school I would be pushed around and stepped on. So how do I want to be remembered? Overall someone who spreads joy and works hard. Thats all. Where I could back and say: I did it
ReplyDeleteThere are certain ways a person can be remembered. In the long term, the only things that anyone leaves behind are the monuments that people built to his glory, the buildings and streets named after him, pieces of art preserved and the greatness of the person’s historical contribution. Especially today, in the era of ubiquitous pop culture, conformism, mass tourism and trends, the question of how much an individual actually means is very important. The main idea of one of Pink Floyds’ most successful songs is that everyone is just “another brick in the wall”. To a certain extent I agree with this statement – individuals today are just a tiny, meaningless element in the consumerist machine. From that point of view, there is nothing a student can do to be remembered in high school, except earning titles such as “Best Sportsman in the year” or “Highest academic results”, and having his name written in the list of champions.
ReplyDeleteDespite the common belief that it’s the beautiful, record holding, somehow outstanding and distinctive people that rule the world, in my opinion, it’s the individuals that are happy and bring happiness to others that are the most valuable. What’s the point of having millions of fans and worshipers all over the globe if every morning you wake up unhappy? I would like to be remembered by the small things I do and say, because to me, what forms my identity and what I leave behind in my environments is how people have viewed me - how I’ve influenced them. What I mean to others that are in contact with me is all that I’m worth, and therefore how I will be remembered. The general opinion I would like to have is hard to define, because I will mean something else to everyone I meet. Nevertheless, my goal is for everyone I will speak to in high school to have a good memory with me.
After high school, I do not want to be remembered. I would rather be known (as in the present tense) then remembered because if you are remembered then that implies a past tense and that I am no longer in the lives of those who I would care about if they were to forgot about me. Think about it, if you attend high school, then Cegep and university solely because you want to get a good career so you can earn a ton of money, what's the point? On your death bed will you be clutching your university diploma? Will you be looking at your last financial statements in those final moments? Or will you be in your garage, sitting in your car, that cost you a fortune, one last time? If you asked me any of these questions, I would not want my last minutes on earth to end by any of these ways. I would want to be surrounded by the people that care most about me and the ones I care most about. If anyone agrees with me, how come the people you care about is not your main goal now? I could not care less if I become rich because money can not buy happiness like people will provide you.
ReplyDeleteTen years from now, I would want to be able to go to parties thrown by multi millionaires and still be the smartest woman in the room regardless of my income. Maybe by writing this, I am writing the legacy that I will leave high school with. Intelligence and happiness are some of the things that nobody can ever take away from you.
To be remembered in high school you have to be a noticeable person, you have to be friends with a lot of people, you have to do things that people hear about and you have to have a personality that can be categorized. You need to fit in to a group of people that are all the same like everyone knows and will remember the people who throw parties, who went to those parties and did something stupid, they’ll remember that group of guys that caused all kinds of trouble, the really pretty girls that were friends with those guys. They’ll remember the people they made fun of, the people who everyone made fun of. Those are the people we remember, all of us, I admit that those are the people that I’ll probably remember. It’s not that you deem those whom you’ve forgotten unimportant, they’re just irrelevant, they were more or less well behave, timid, average in school and their friends were the same. These are my people.
ReplyDeleteI don’t want to be remembered, I’ve never done anything memorably bad or good, I’m average in school, timid and more or less well behaved, and that’s perfectly okay with that. I don’t want people to remember me because it says to me that I did something that stood out and I’m just not that kind of person, I want to blend and not draw attention to myself because generally the people you remember in high school, you remember for all the wrong reasons.
After high school, I want to be remembered by my friends, my teachers and even the people in my grade that I wasn't very close with. By my friends, I want to be remembered as someone who was always there for them. Someone who never cared about whether they were popular, the way they looked, their sexual orientation etc... I want my friends to remember me as someone they could always talk to, tell anything to no matter what. Someone that would never judge them or make them feel bad. I want to be remembered by my friends as someone they could depend on and who made them feel good. By my teachers, I want to be remembered as a student who was hard working, intelligent, but who also was funny and could joke around a bit. I don't want them to remember me for the wrong reasons; being disruptive in class etc... I just want to be remembered as a good student who did her work and who worked hard to achieve her goals. By the rest of my grade/classmates, I want to be remembered as someone who could put a smile on someone else's face. As someone who always spoke her mind, who cared about everyone no matter what, someone who was well-respected and who respected others. Someone who cared a lot for the community she lived in and the people in it. In the end, I just want to be remembered for the person I truly am and how that made others feel. I just want a smile to come across someone's face when they think of me or hear my name.
ReplyDeleteTo be remembered after high school, it is most likely because you were popular, or you had a lot of friends, you threw massive parties or you went to parties, the list goes on. Personally, I think that I am generally a shy person, I have my group of friends and I stick with them. I tend to keep to myself. Although, if I was remembered, I would want it to be for being a hard worker, and just being nice. People usually remember the worst in others, and I really hope that I would be remembered for some of my better qualities. When I finish high school, I want to be able to look back on it and be happy with what I had done over those 5 years, and if all I had done is try my best to be kind to people, then so be it, that is exactly the way I would want to be remembered, not for popularity or how many friends I had, because in the long run that won’t matter, what will matter is how you feel about your character. I want teachers to remember me as someone who was hard working and I want my friends to remember me as someone who made them laugh. Throughout high school, everyone has their ups and downs, and I can only hope that in the end, I am happy with the way it turned out, and I am proud of who I was during those 5 years.
ReplyDeleteAfter high school id like to be remembered as a person who was really nice and caring to everyone, even though some people may upset or annoy me, i want people to remember that i've always been nice and never mean to anyone. I want to be remembered by my teachers, classmates and most importantly my friends. id like to be remembered by my teachers as not a shy student but as a really hard worker. i believe that in everything i do i always try my best and put 100% effort in the things i do. For my classmates, id like them to remember me as someone who was always willing to help them out if they needed, someone who was nice and caring. i would never want someone to feel or think that i was a mean person. Everyone makes mistakes and i wouldn't want anyone to feel hurt if i had made a mistake. Id like my friends to remember me as someone who they could trust because i would never intentionally hurt them or do anything to upset them. i love my friends so much and i care for them all. Most people who are remembered are the popular kids who had a bad image and threw really big parties and had so many friends. in my opinion i wouldn't want to be classified or remembered that way. i would rather have a small group of caring best friends that i can trust 100% than a large group of friends that don't care. After my 5 years of high school i want to look back and feel happy and proud of what i had done within those years.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have been at St Thomas for 4 years now, I still have a hard time distinguishing who are my friends and who I know I'm going to remember and who will remember me after these 5 years have ended. In school, I have the tendency to always want to go and hag around with one group of people one week and then another the next, I''ve always tried to be a decent person to hold a conversation with with the people Ive met. I would like to be remembered as someone whom you could talk to who of which there wouldn't be much discussion of the teenage norm of things. Another defining quality that I have that ties in to the question is the fact that I consider myself to often (Not always) be the odd one out in a group of people. This being said, I would like to be remembered as someone with a unique personality (that sounds really stuck-up). As much as this is a good thing to hope for, I Know from experience that alot of people will not remember my oddness in that way but rather as a negative thing.
ReplyDeleteAfter high school, I do not know how I would like to be remembered. I think most people that are remembered usually made a huge impact in the school and affected others; therefore being well known. It is not my goal to change others lives or simply be noticed by many. Personally, I don’t think I run with the “popular” crowd and I don’t think that it should matter whether you do or you don’t. I am perfectly happy with who I’m friends with and don’t need to be remembered to be proud and happy with memories of those 5 years I’m going to have spent in high school. I am not super unique and never did anything special to earn an important title or be known by many, and I’m okay with that. But it’s also okay if you would like to be remembered with a certain status. But personally, that’s not who I am or something I want to be remembered by. All I think really matters are what my friends are going to think of me, since they are most likely the only people that will really remember who I am and hopefully we’ll still be friends in the future so they won’t even remember me, they’ll know me. If by any chance, others or teachers or anybody remembers me after high school, I think I’d just want them to remember me by Jenna, nothing more and nothing less.
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ReplyDeletePeople can be remembered in many different ways. Some are positive and some are negative but most people tend to look at the negative things and mistakes you've made in life, over the positive. You could be the most amazing person in the world and make one mistake and everyone would see you differently. That's life and we need to learn to accept that because no one will ever stop judging you, no matter who you are. When i graduate from high school, I want to be remembered as the person who always made others smile, especially when they were going through tough times. I'd also like to be remembered as someone with a great sense of humour, as someone who is kind and genuinely cares for others, as someone with great taste in music, as someone with a rather outgoing but "cool" personality, as someone with a great sense of style and as someone who is very creative. Finally, I'd like to be remembered for my singing but that isn't something a lot of people know about because I am very shy to perform in front of others.
ReplyDeleteAfter high school, I don't want to be someone that everyone remembers. I'm not even sure if I want to be remembered at all but I guess I would want to be remembered by the people I care about (i.e. my friends) because that's all I need. I know I'm not going to be remembered by everyone because I'm a generally shy person, and not someone people will notice unless it's for a bad reason. I might not have a clear idea of exactly how I'd like to be remembered, but I know for sure that I don't want to be remembered for a bad reputation. I want to be remembered by my friends and classmates as someone who was always nice and caring. For people I don't talk to or am not close with, I'm fine with not being remembered because it will mean that they didn't have a reason to remember me for something bad I did. If that would happen, people would judge me, without even getting to know me, and unfortunately that's something that too many of us do. After high school, I'll know it was worth it if I accomplished what I wanted and if I was with my friends, not if I had left an impression on everyone I went to school with. So I guess I don't want to be remembered. Of course my friends will remember me, but I don't expect people I'm not close with to. If they do happen to remember me, I just want them to think that I was someone who was always nice and caring, and not as someone who did something bad or made some sort of mistake that no one will forget. I don't need to be remembered by everyone after high school, only my friends and people I was close with.
ReplyDeleteRight now, I honestly have no idea what I want to be remembered for. I have a couple defining qualities, but it's hard to write out what I assume people think of me without seeming ostentatious. I've heard a lot about me in the years that I've been here, not all of it has been positive, and I've always found it difficult to self reflect on my qualities and traits. A lot of people also have different impressions of me, although I have been told that I am a generally likeable person and that I give good advice. I guess everyone's desire is to be remembered by somebody, and I have to say, I feel the same way; hopefully I am commemorated in some way, although doing so would require something really defining. Not only after high school, my dream is to be exalted through time. One quote that I once heard that will stick with me forever is, "Every person dies twice. Once when their heart stops beating, and once when their name is spoken for the last time". To my peers, I hope I will one day accomplish something so that I will be revered, and to not end up like "that one guy nobody knew".
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