What I want to be known for?

I was having a conversation with a friend someday and she asked me what I want to be remembered for. The question coincide with my recent reflections and I responded, “while I want to be known for bigger and greater things, I think what matters to me are the small things.

I want to be remembered as someone who was a great colleague at work and people enjoyed working with me and I bring the best out of them.

I want to be remembered as being a good flatmate and if this means asking people how their day goes and how they are doing because we live with people who sometimes may be going through something we do not know. And what they need is how are you? I want to be known for that person.

I want to be remembered that I was a good father, a positive role model to my kids when I have one. That I looked after them and cared for them.

I want to be remembered as a good husband when that happens and care desperately for my wife.

I want to be remembered as a good CEO, who looked after those who are in his care and help them to reach their truest potential and they would remember that because of him, I achieved things I thought I could never achieve or imagine.

I want to be remembered as a good friend who listened and be there to share in struggles and wins.

I want to be remembered as a good and patriotic citizens who respect the rule of law and worked hard to make his country and community a better place.

I want to be remembered as a global citizen, who found a way to at least give a little bit or piece of myself wherever I found myself in.

And I honestly don't want to be everything. I just want to be a piece in the life of one person, one child, maybe one community, maybe a country someday or the continent, if that ever happens and people had look back and say because of him I didn't give up or because of him I started believing that I can be whatever I wanted to be and be a positive change to myself and community.

Hammed Kayode Alabi (c) 2022