Purpose and loneliness
Some people feel a strong pull toward leaving something behind — a body of work, a contribution, a change in the world that outlasts them. That concern for legacy can create a particular loneliness: the loneliness of caring about something that is difficult to explain to people who are focused on more immediate goals, and the loneliness of not knowing whether the work will matter in the end.
Thinking about legacy means operating on a longer time horizon than most of the people around you. It can make the ordinary measurements of success — salary, promotion, social recognition — feel less satisfying, because they are not the right measures for what you are actually trying to do. That mismatch between your concerns and the available metrics is a form of isolation.
There is also the fear that the work will not matter — that what you are building will be forgotten, that the contribution will be too small to register, that the effort will not have been worth it. That uncertainty is genuinely difficult to sit with, and without peers who share the same concern, there is often no one to think it through with.
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