What’s your legacy?
GOOD RIDDANCE“What’s your legacy?” was a phrase from a conversation that stayed with me. The question is simple, but it opens up something much larger: what actually remains of a life? Is it the things we deliberately create, or rather the traces we leave behind—often almost incidentally—in other people and in our surroundings?
Decisions can reach far beyond the moment in which they are made. Some are made out of conviction, others out of ignorance, indifference, or simply without any awareness of their possible consequences. Yet their effects can still be felt years later. In this sense, a legacy consists not only of what we would like to be remembered for, but also of what we leave behind unintentionally.
Good Riddance explores these traces and asks how we deal with what continues to reach from the past into the present. What do we inherit? What do we carry forward? And what can eventually be left behind?
The title offers a deliberate full stop to this lingering effect. Here, Good Riddance is less about forgetting or suppressing the past than about the possibility of acknowledging something as part of one’s own history without carrying it indefinitely. Perhaps that, too, is part of life: recognising what came before us, deciding what should remain—and, eventually, moving on.
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