"If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete." - Viktor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning"

Way to start the post on a positive note, right? 

Quite honestly, yes.  

A while ago, when I first started this blog, I wrote a post on Legacy.  

After doing more reading, I wanted to re-share some of my thoughts but with a refined lens.

Is the work we're doing, so important, so valuable, and so needed by the people we serve that they'll miss it when we're gone?

As you think about the question, try not to think about it from a surface level, "well, of course, someone will miss me when I leave for another company."

Think about this question from the position of your mortality.

The genesis of this blog started from a rethinking of my mortality. Additionally, I believe there's a kind of hope that ignites when we think about the mark we leave on the world.

That hope is magnified when the mark we leave is needed.  

So, think about the question I proposed. Think about what you're doing now - parenting, learning, creating, performing, or any work that matters to you. 

Will people miss the work you do after you're gone?

How can you make what you're doing last beyond you?