\n\t\t<\/aside>\n***\u00a0<\/p>\n
When I think about what I want to leave behind at The Daily, I think a bit too hard about legacy. I get in my head, wondering, \u2018Was I good enough? Did I help people get enough out of this place, help them fall in love with it the same way that I once did?\u2019<\/p>\n
I still care about those things, and still care about a dumb legacy to an extent, though there\u2019s not much I can do to change it now. For the first time in years, I\u2019ve spent my recent weeknights outside the halls of 420 Maynard, after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the cycle continues, and the section moves on. New faces come and sit at the desk, new clutter pops up, and new jokes form. Suddenly, I don\u2019t feel so large in the grand scheme of it all, and I remember that I needed The Daily much more than it ever needed me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And so, I look back once again. I look back at those first moments when I joined, and I remember what it felt like to truly be welcome somewhere. I remember the warmth of the people I met here, who kept me coming back long after they left. I remember the games of euchre, \u201cbasket ball\u201d and chair monkey, and the late nights spent in the newsroom not because I had any work to do, but just because there was no place I\u2019d rather be.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\nOur games of choice have changed now, and I\u2019ll remember those, too. I\u2019ll remember the younger people who I get to see at the desk now, who have the privilege of still getting to spend as much time as they want in the newsroom. I\u2019ll remember that while there isn\u2019t a single soul of overlap between my first Sunday meeting and my last, the warmth, the camaraderie \u2014 it all feels exactly the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If nothing else, I know that\u2019s what\u2019s left behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
The clearest memento from my time at The Daily sits taped to the ceiling above the sports desk: me and Rekha\u2019s Managing Sports Editor campaign poster. It\u2019s filled with quotes from our closest friends, shows us at the softball stadium where we both covered our first beat and even has me catching \u2014 the position I played in baseball growing up. It\u2019s probably the only thing in the newsroom that could actually give any insight into what I did for four years here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of all the things that I\u2019ve left behind at the desk, it\u2019ll also probably be the first to go. Soon enough it\u2019ll fall, and the people who know us well enough to put it back up won\u2019t be around. Maybe, if I\u2019m lucky, it\u2019ll find its way into a drawer rather than into the recycling.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\nOnce that\u2019s gone, all that\u2019s left of me at the desk will be things like the stuffed animals. The memories attached to them will fade. To whoever occupies the sports desk at the time, it\u2019ll just be a stuffed animal and nothing more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And when some future Daily Sports Writer picks that stuffed animal up, I don\u2019t hope that some grand story is retold or some lasting legacy somehow permeates their mind. I just hope that they toss it back and forth with whoever\u2019s next to them and stay there a little longer than they need to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just like I always did.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\n
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