I've been wondering which would you guys find more appealing, being rich and famous while you're alive but being forgotten after a few years of your death, or being dirt poor while you're alive, but being remembered for all eternity for something that you've created/composed/discovered while you were alive.
The first one (though I don't really care for the idea of fame). While it'd be nice to do something so significant, it won't really matter to me once I'm dead.
Im currently well on my way to being a poor nobody that nobody is going to remember so i'll take whichever i can get as they are both better than what i have.
Wait. If you were a poor nobody exactly how would you be remembered for eternity?KrunkMastaX
Van Gogh wasn't rich... or even respected... when he was alive. People will remember his name, discuss his life, and buy his work for another 200 years too... which is more than I can say for someone like Will Smith, Will Ferrel, or Bo Williams.
[QUOTE="ferrari2001"][QUOTE="Aspen706"] It doesn't look cheap to me.:)
Aspen706
That's my good buddy ferrari2002 who was kind enough to pose for a picture. You couldn't get a newer model than that.:P I don't know any of the rich stuck up ferrari's who like to go clubbing and cruise around town like they are all high and mighty. If I did they definitely would have been in my picture.
That's my good buddy ferrari2002 who was kind enough to pose for a picture. ferrari2001
You couldn't get a newer model than that.:P I don't know any of the rich stuck up ferrari's who like to go clubbing and cruise around town like they are all high and mighty. If I did they definitely would have been in my picture. I know a few but they were to stuck up to give me a picture.
[QUOTE="ferrari2001"]Money does not equal happiness. I could be perfectly happy without any money or material possession. Aspen706
I highly doubt that you'll much care about being famous once you're gone.
Why doubt it, thats what I want.
There's something to be said for possibly not really being physically able to care about much at all once one passes from this world. I could be wrong though.
Definitely remembered for eternity. I think back about all the people who have lived in the history of the World and how so many of them were probably just a bunch of nobodies that no one, not even their family, even know about possibly up to 3 generations after they've died. I don't really want that, I want to be known for living on this planet. So second choice. :P
I highly doubt that you'll much care about being famous once you're gone.
coolbeans90
Why doubt it, thats what I want.
There's something to be said for possibly not really being physically able to care about much at all once one passes from this world. I could be wrong though.
To be fair, a person could derive satisfaction while they were still living from the knowledge that they would be remembered after they died.
I'd rather be at peace and happy while I'm alive, so neither.
Both of your options are irrelevant to me because I think money and fame do not constitute happiness; there are far more important things in life. And while it would be nice to be remembered for my work for centuries to come, the problem is I won't know about it either way once I'm dead, and somehow the thought of being remembered when I'm gone doesn't quite cut it for me when faced with the thought of nothingness, the thought that I'll cease to exist.
However, for the sake of your poll, I'll go with option two. :P
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