"What's your great grandfather's name?"

I responded in an instant--"I don't know his name."

"Exactly!" Peter Yoon said. "Neither do I know mine, other than the fact that he had children."

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edit: coming back to this post.

This desire for fame in us stems from another desire, a desire for us to be fully known.

Many look for fame, for them to pass on a legacy, but this a prime example of how lacking this goal is. How many people remember their great grandfather's name? In 3 generations your name will be forgotten. Even the music greats of our parents, our children will most likely not know. Artists we know now, say John Mayer, will become a diminishing name in 1 generation and gone in 2. Even the Mathematical geniuses, say Euler, maybe his name will be remembered and taught forever.

But I don't want to be known what I've done. I don't want to be remembered as Rich the kid who invented X.

Our desire is to be fully known. And even more than that, fully known and fully accepted. For us in all our glory and in all our sin, to be known. And for that to be all in the mind of a person, and for that person to say, I love you completely.

Not, I like everything about you except that you could be a little better looking, but you're not bad. No. To be wholly and completely accepted.

This is what God called intimacy, and He created people to be in intimacy with each other and with him. Some may call this shalom. Only in this intimacy, do insecurities become perfections. Only in this do we lose the need to prove ourselves to be better people, to prove our selves worthy. Only in this intimacy, can we find meaning and purpose, innate worth, and mostly importantly, life how it was meant to be lived.