You are so tiny. We are so tiny. What has you racking your brain to be more than you are? Oprah? Michelle? Did someone tell you that you aren't as much as you should be? Sure- be part of the solution and not the problem. Sure- go plant trees where they have been ravished. Yes, it would be a huge help if you could stop rape, child predators, and human trafficking, please do!! You didn't ask to be born, but here .... The most wide spread pleasure and help you can give is:
DO NO HARM

be a mentor for as many as you can. teach them well and teach them to teach others. that's the best you can do

Start small. Be kind. Help someone. Take your ego out of it and don't look for recognition. Treat the clerk at 7-11 and the waitress at Denny's with respect. Stand up to a bully for someone. People will always remember how you made them feel.

And most importantly, help this country get back on track, and vote Blue!

My friend, even in your family nobody remembers anything about you two generations later. Most people do not remember hundreds thousands of good transcendent things made in the past or their names. Once you're dead, you will not care at all about the world and legacies. Just live your live to the fullest!

Plant a time capsule in your yard. Someday, maybe someone will dig it up.

Yep, doing good deeds are typically never forgotten, even years later....those stories carry on generations.

Being kind to someone is intensely powerful. People never forget kindness.

It's the basis for the novel 'Cloud Atlas'.

Find a cause - something that's important to you - and work at it or contribute to it or both. Wife Pat and I contribute to Childrens' Hospitals and take in rescued greyhounds, among other things. Will anyone build a memorial to us? Of course not, but we will have made a difference to others,even if small, and that is rewarding enough.

What is that about anyway? Plenty have come and gone without any lasting impact so fail to see the big deal about leaving something that lasts. Pure ego is how it seems, nothing more.

To that degree - no.
I think everywhere I go, whoever I talk to - even right now - I'm having an affect.
That's good enough for me.
Personally being just one more life form that existed among billions of others is a comforting thought.

Just by virtue of living and experiencing consciousness, you are making a lasting difference. Your self as an individual will be gone, but conscious awareness is immutable and immortal.

I do have kids, and grandkids, but I do hope to complete a book before I go, with some ideas I have, which hopefully will live on longer than me.

I have given up on the changing the world. I am working on my little corner of Brevard County, Fl. That's the best I can do.

Teach. You’ll reach someone.

They say, that as long as your name is spoken...you will live! Get your name on something! It occurred to me that a tombstone has a persons name on it! I plan to be cremated...I guess that will be the end of me! (After my children are gone.)

Where do your interests lie?