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Leaving a Legacy
In this episode, Patrick talks about legacy, something he has been thinking about a lot recently. He asks what is important for you to leave behind, if anything? Also, when does one start to think about legacy? Normally this is when starting a family, but not everyone leaves behind a biological family, so how important is it for you to leave your mark?
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- One of the reasons I think people work in the arts is because they want to create something that never existed before, that’s quite a strong drive which gives creatives a real purpose to creative practitioners and to make something of their lives.
- Ancient humans not only left drawing on the ways of caves, but handprints as well, it’s a specific thing that humans have done for thousands of years, a primal instinct to communicate that “I was here during this era of human life”. It’s a strong impulse that something of us exists into the future.
- Recently I witnessed a funeral online of a wonderful man and what hit me was how much he was respected, admired and loved. It’s interesting to look at legacy in non-material ways, perhaps it’s better to think about it as the love we leave behind? This could easily affect a lot of my behaviours and the ways we interact with people during our lives.
- I’ve realised in the last few months and years that what we can leave as a legacy, as the elders, is offering something back. In the world now the younger generation is making their reality, and this can be very different to the one that the older generation grew up with due in part to the rapid evolution in technology. What I feel very strongly about is the desire to leave some of the values, qualities and better aspects of the lives we experienced pre-digital to younger generations.
BEST MOMENTS
‘As a writer, you might hope that whatever you wrote might live on after you, though it’s certainly not always the case.’
‘As we get older, that sense of the ageing process and the fact we’re not going to be around forever becomes more acute, so that need for legacy becomes equally more intense.’
‘When friendships and relationships end, they haven’t necessarily failed, they just ran their course, but some residual feelings remain. Life is a flowing river.’
‘I still believe in love and I still believe that now is more important to me than anything and I’d like to be remembered in a loving way.’
ABOUT THE HOST
Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!
CONTACT METHOD
www.theatrenation.org
https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/
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By Patrick KealeyIn this episode, Patrick talks about legacy, something he has been thinking about a lot recently. He asks what is important for you to leave behind, if anything? Also, when does one start to think about legacy? Normally this is when starting a family, but not everyone leaves behind a biological family, so how important is it for you to leave your mark?
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- One of the reasons I think people work in the arts is because they want to create something that never existed before, that’s quite a strong drive which gives creatives a real purpose to creative practitioners and to make something of their lives.
- Ancient humans not only left drawing on the ways of caves, but handprints as well, it’s a specific thing that humans have done for thousands of years, a primal instinct to communicate that “I was here during this era of human life”. It’s a strong impulse that something of us exists into the future.
- Recently I witnessed a funeral online of a wonderful man and what hit me was how much he was respected, admired and loved. It’s interesting to look at legacy in non-material ways, perhaps it’s better to think about it as the love we leave behind? This could easily affect a lot of my behaviours and the ways we interact with people during our lives.
- I’ve realised in the last few months and years that what we can leave as a legacy, as the elders, is offering something back. In the world now the younger generation is making their reality, and this can be very different to the one that the older generation grew up with due in part to the rapid evolution in technology. What I feel very strongly about is the desire to leave some of the values, qualities and better aspects of the lives we experienced pre-digital to younger generations.
BEST MOMENTS
‘As a writer, you might hope that whatever you wrote might live on after you, though it’s certainly not always the case.’
‘As we get older, that sense of the ageing process and the fact we’re not going to be around forever becomes more acute, so that need for legacy becomes equally more intense.’
‘When friendships and relationships end, they haven’t necessarily failed, they just ran their course, but some residual feelings remain. Life is a flowing river.’
‘I still believe in love and I still believe that now is more important to me than anything and I’d like to be remembered in a loving way.’
ABOUT THE HOST
Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!
CONTACT METHOD
www.theatrenation.org
https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/