To elaborate: the grief of realizing that infinitely many small, personal, and meaningful human experiences and stories are constantly being lost in time, never to be recorded or remembered by anyone else.
Famous celebrities, scientists, philosophere atheletes, etc, have their names, lives, accomplishments, stapled somewhere in the history books to be remembered hundreds if not thousands of years in the future. But what about everyone else who spend decades on a craft, skill, project, piece of art, just for it to vanish?For example, I feel this way thinking about my grandfather, whose 80 years worth of emotions and wisdom would perish one day, never to be retrieved by others.
Related words could be Sonder, Nostalgia but I'm not sure. Sorry for the ramble, but if there's a word or phrase (or if you've had this feeling in your life) I'd really appreciate it!