+201 One day, nobody will ever remember you existed. In that sense, it's almost like you never existed at all, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well thats a downer to an otherwise nice day.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's like a second death.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Wow, that's a really good way of putting it. I like that a lot.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I can't remember which famous person said it, but it's too much effort to Google it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Just cuz someone doesn't know you doesn't mean you never existed.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

'It's almoat LIKE you never existed.'

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Your simile meter is broken

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It's not almost LIKE you never existed. You either exist or you don't, there's no in between.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Aren't you fun.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In the specific sense put forth by the OP, it is. It's just a simile, a figure of speech; it's not designed to serve as a literal interpretation. It is, by definition, a simple comparison TO that of not existing.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Butterfly effect...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That movie is the biggest trip you can get without dropping acid, I swear.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Touché

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've never seen the movie, I just know what the Butterfly Effect is.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Ah, I see. You should watch the movie, it's really good.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Unless you make something of yourself. People remember Alexander the Great thousands of years after he died

by Anonymous 11 years ago

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/459853-there-will-come-a-time-when-all-of-us-are

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well I plan on living long enough to live forever, but I get your point.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

:/ I thought about something like that this April. It was exactly 2 years after my boyfriend left me, and I had known him for 2 years. It was almost as if it cancelled itself out and we never really mattered. It was really depressing knowing that I'd most likely been long forgotten.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

How do we know that we really exist in the first place?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

"I think, therefore I am"

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Sounds like 1984.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

But you influence people every day, and that alters the way they influence people in the future, and so on and so forth. Even a forgotten person's existence is still felt in the world.

by Anonymous 11 years ago