At Great Minds Think – Highlight Reel,
Sarah & Rohini ask ‘How do you
want to be immortalized?’
I have thought about stone, of marble and bronze, about the careful chisel of a name into something that will outlast the hand that carved it. But stone only holds a shape; it does not remember.
Let me be remembered as music …. something that doesn’t just mark that a person lived, but makes another person feel something, the way a chord change can catch you off guard and loosen something in your chest before you even know why. I want to be the kind of memory that moves people …. to smile, to dance, to reflect, to climb, to cry.
Let the song lyrics carry the parts of me that mattered …. not what I built or earned, but how I lived and how I loved. Let it be warm. Let it hold the people I held. And let there be a joke tucked somewhere in the bridge …. a chuckle, a punchline …. because I don’t want to be remembered as only poignant and tender …. I want to be remembered as being fun, too. And funny. A soul that could hold both an ache and a laugh in the same breath.
If someone hums me years from now without even remembering where the tune came from …. that’s enough. That’s more than a name carved into stone could ever do.
years gone, they still sing ….
my name a scant memory,
but not the feelings
NAR©2026
This is “I’ve Got the Music In Me” by Kiki Dee Band
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