How interesting! This sort of feels like deja vu!

It’s funny, because I just recently finished a thesis on the concept of posterity and how it has transformed since the Elizabethan era, for my final english assement (for high school).

Specifically, it was about how individual’s final words have become a bid for posterity; a final recouncement cementing how they wanted to be remembered. In Shakespeare’s texts it was all about saving face, retaining honour and status - like Othello’s tyrant "O My name, my name, I am nothing without my name!"...then he kills himself.

It was similar so, for John Proctor in Arthur Miller’s ’The Crucible’, before he got stoned to death...

But for some reason - the whole concept of Posterity - of retaining a part of onself to be passed on to future generations has been lost in this modern world. That was the part I found very interesting. Yes we do have blogs, journals, and a whole lot of other random things - but people have found little value in them when we pass on. People no longer record what they think, how they feel, who they felt they were at a particular time in their life, with ’posterity’ in mind. Not many care that the future will hold a particular perception of us because of posterity.

I like your idea for a journal. I believe in making a difference - that is something I want posterity to remember me by. I want to leave a positive part of me behind...

So keep having ’brainwaves’, I like what you come up with!

Annalise