procreating is not the only legacy you can leave. You can touch the lives of others by something you create or accomplish. Be creative - make music, write a book, paint. Invent something that improves the lives of others. Help others. Volunteer. Make someone else feel loved and wanted. We all have something to give. That is what life is good for. Sharing with others and enjoying your time on earth.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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