It's sad to see anyone lose a fight to cancer, especially for the family left behind. It's hard to believe that he was only five years older than me. RIP Mr. Scott.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Cool as the other side of the Pillow
Stuart Scott was always enjoyable to listen to on SportsCenter. I've drifted away from sports in these past few years (I don't even have ESPN anymore), but there was a time in my life when I was an ESPN fanatic and I actually had favorites for SportsCenter. Stuart was one of my favorites.
Legacy is always an interesting topic. You can read my thoughts on it, which is still where I stand, in my blog post almost five year ago to the day: January 9th, 2010. Anyway, the interesting thing about legacy to me is that I don't think you can intentionally create legacy. It happens naturally and grows from the person that you are. I don't think Stuart Scott said, "I want my legacy to be 'Boo-yah', 'Cool as the other side of the pillow', and loving my daughters." He did his job his way and loved his daughters. It was just who he was, and in the end, it ended up being a legacy. I'm not sure it's the best analogy, but it's like collectibles. When something new is being sold today as a "collectible" I can pretty much guarantee that it won't ever be collectible. When they started selling Star Wars toys back in the 70s, no one said, "These are going to be collectibles." They were just toys, but they ended up being collectibles. So when someone says, "This is going to be my legacy" it's doubtful to me that it will be. Legacies grow out of who a person is by how they are living in the here and now and is only identified as a legacy in retrospect.
It's sad to see anyone lose a fight to cancer, especially for the family left behind. It's hard to believe that he was only five years older than me. RIP Mr. Scott.
It's sad to see anyone lose a fight to cancer, especially for the family left behind. It's hard to believe that he was only five years older than me. RIP Mr. Scott.
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Marc, I went back and read your post from January 9, 2010. I'm also not suggesting the selfishly driven desire to create a legacy, but rather the desire to do something that positively impacts others now and that naturally becomes a legacy because of those positive impacts on others. I think you're right about creating a legacy, it can't be planned. Rather, aspire to do great things for others. Doing so creates the highest likelihood that after your gone someone will consider your accomplishments a legacy.
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