RE: Getting quoted by Buzz Aldrin in his book - some encouragement to all steemians working hard to be seen
Thank you. I totally can say "yes" to what you said about "you never know". Writing articles in the spirit that it might be worth for some one whom you do not know or haven't thought about is good to keep in mind.
Actually this reminds me on a little anecdote: I worked back then in an agency as a Public Relations consultant. Eventually I quit my job and turned my way to another profession.
Some of my legacies stayed in the office. This included items such as scissors, punches and tackers, all of which I had pasted on with small notes and which contained a funny saying about my "ownership". For example,"Watch out, if you hold this punch in your hand, you're a thief. It definitely doesn't belong on your desk. Bring it back, you bad guy": -)
A colleague, whom I had only got to know for a very short time, wrote to me on Facebook years later that the things still haunt the office and make people smile.
Another much younger colleague thanked me several years later for my lessons in "Powerpoint" and said that he had learned a lot from me.
This can be done with texts and publications. Once on the net: Who knows who will stumble upon it?
Thank you very much for this good advice and the motivation!
I'm glad you liked it! Thank you also for contributing to the post with your own experience! I would say we leave bits and pieces of ourselves everywhere we go that stays behind after we've left. It's a good thing to have in mind what bits of you one would like other people to find and appreciate :)
Yes, it's the same with keeping in mind that we are always role models to others, as well to friends but also to strangers.
I would like to be remembered positively by other people, it is sometimes a strange but also very useful thought to think about how people talk about you when you are already dead. With this ulterior motive in mind, some of the arguments in my life would have developed differently:)