What is my legacy?
I’m only 40 and soon to be 41 but I was reading about empires and how the author wrote that empires will eventually fall but they tend to leave behind rich and enduring legacies. The most poignant being the one created by the Romans. Their teachings, laws and culture still has an impact on our lives to this day.
I think we all have our own Empires. From the cubicle we occupy to the boardroom we built with our own hands. From a star journalist to a humble blogger. We carve our own niche, our own dreams, our own laws and make our very own empire. Some of us have thousands and thousands of followers (subjects) while others have their loyal clients and loved ones.
But in my own experience by letting go of a life I had become used to and complacent about, I have extinguished my own empire in the hopes of building my next one.But what legacy have I left? Friends who are still in my heart but physically much much further away? Clients who will admire and use my work but ultimately use another photographer? Or the people’s images of which I captured and allowed them to see themselves in a whole new way? My legacy is knowing that I have given my love and joy to something I was good at. That was my legacy and that was my empire.
What will my next empire look like? I know what I would like it to look like but with any future legacy worthy rendition, I will have to adapt, adjust and force things to work. And then when this chapter shall also run its course, I will write about my empire and the legacy that I have left.
