Regarding 'Impact doesn't have to be global to be big' (Katherine Reilly, Nov. 17):
I graduated in 1971, one of the "baby boomers" who was not going to get caught in the "sucess trap," who was never going to get old and who was going to change the world for the better. This was the mantra, anyway, of so many of my graduating class. But something happened along the way. So many of us lost touch with what was really important. I'm not going to suggest that we're all hypcorites; let's just say that many of us became (to paraphrase a opular song of the times,) "blinded by the light" of success. In so doing, so many of us lost sight of what I believe to be some universal truths which apply to all generations.
Notwithstanding our protestations to the contrary, irrespective of the success and wealth some of us may achieve, the vast majority of us will neither be subjects of the history books after we have "shuffled off this moral coil." That's not cynicism; it's verity.
What will be remembered is what we do for the benefit of our posterity. What we choose to do is up to each of us indivdually. For some, benefitting others comes in the form of charitable endeavors. For others, it may mean creating or developing products or ideas that make this world a better, more humane place in which to live. But the key is, I believe, to leave a positive, meaningful legacy. That comes about only when we stop thinking egocentrically and begin acting altruistically.
To put it another way, live your life so that when it is finally concluded, your successors will find it more onerous to fill your shoes than your hat. Ron Halpern '71
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