Sometimes, when we accomplish some great achievement in our lives, we think we deserve the admiration of every one around us.
It's such a big event when we discover a new chemical element, a new life form or a new planet. It's the front page news when we create a new robot or when we make a medical breakthrough. We are heroes... for a day... for a week maybe... After that, people forget our great deeds and we strive once more for regaining our lost fame.
But we are all equally famous in front of death. It knows everyone of us and it knows all our deeds... and they are equally important.
What matters, is how people remember us after...
It's such a big event when we discover a new chemical element, a new life form or a new planet. It's the front page news when we create a new robot or when we make a medical breakthrough. We are heroes... for a day... for a week maybe... After that, people forget our great deeds and we strive once more for regaining our lost fame.
But we are all equally famous in front of death. It knows everyone of us and it knows all our deeds... and they are equally important.
What matters, is how people remember us after...
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