# The legacy effect Created On: 06-28-2023 07:38 am Up:: [[Family (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 #concept Topics:: Related:: [[Your relatives continue to live through you]] --- The idea that the memories and influences of the relatives who've long passed, such as your great grandparents, will become more conscious and meaningful in new ways as you mature and reach relevant milestones in your life, such as becoming a parent. This appears to happen in two ways: *inward* and *outward*. From an inward perspective, these are the direct influences that those individuals had on you. Early on, they held mold who you are, how you think, and feel. And outward, which is the perpetuation and execution of those inward influences in an outward manner in your life: your spin on these ideas, the values, the aspirations, and the act of, often times, unconsciously carrying these influences out to your children through your [[Parenting (MOC)]] approach. It is important to remember that these effects can be both positive and negative, but we hopefully can always grow to see even the negative aspects through a positive lens: [[Amor Fati (MOC)]].