Daily writing prompt

What is the legacy you want to leave behind?

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The legacy I want to leave behind and the legacy I will leave behind are probably two different sentences. Naturally when I think of who I am permanently making marks on, I think of my four children.

Bella, my oldest, jokes with me all the time about what traits or characteristics I’ve passed onto them already. “Great mom thanks, all this anxiety and depression is from your side of the family” or “you passed on your reverse body dysmorphia to Cordy and I, thanks”. The reverse body dysmorphia she’s eluding to is a joke we make about how both of my daughters and myself think and see ourselves as slim and trim and then when we see what we actually look like in a photo, it’s rather shocking.

All jokes aside, when I think of legacies, I imagine my own thoughts and beliefs that will be passed down and ingrained on my children. But then also more tangible ideas like knowing how to cook yummy meals for your family, and taking that to a whole new level on holidays. That’s important to me. That they know how to cook.

Also, I’d like to burden at least one of them with my non-profit “The Sidney Project” and hope that it carries on beyond my life and maybe even expands into more than it is right now. That would be a great legacy to leave behind, helping those in need. At least attempting to leave the world better than you found it.