Blog #235: Carrying on a Legacy
- Jeffrey Snyder
- May 3, 2022
- 2 min read
When someone you are close to passes from this life into the next, he or she leaves behind something that makes them who they are as souls. That, my friends, is called a legacy.
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With David Sharif now gone, the autism/neurodiversity community now has to carry on his legacy. But it will certainly not be an easy one. Many of us, myself included, would much rather have David back but it just will not happen.
What David had left us was an impact in the community that may not nor will ever be duplicated. Carrying on someone else’s legacy is to be handled with great care and precision. This is the case with not just a death, but also something like a resignation or a retirement, which occurs on a frequent basis at least once in our lifetimes.
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The fact of the matter is that we cannot go on forever and when our time comes, no matter how old we are, we are to be prepared to carry on the mantle of someone and their work.
Due to his death, David left many works and goals unfinished and now it’s up to us, the autism/neurodiversity community, to pick up where he left off. But most importantly, he left us a legacy that we have to carry on as a community.
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Of course, when a community member dies or retires, we may not want to carry on that member’s legacy because we would much rather have he or she doing it or we say we are not ready to carry on that legacy. But, it’s important to start preparing now to carry on a person’s legacy.
The more your successor does to prepare to carry on your or someone else’s legacy, the better the transition will be when the time comes. David left a lot of successors to carry on his work and now, we must get to work picking up where he left off.
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Catch you all later!!
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