Perhaps I'm just getting maudlin, but these two things hit me recently. First was Michael K Williams, one of my favorite actors, dying of what is believed to be a drug overdose after a lifelong battle with addiction. Watch this, and tell me if he wasn't brilliant - and especially in light of what has happened since, the ending of the piece. Second was this quote by our own Wander Margaret Bonnano: She was wrong. It was the fifth sentence in the obituary I read - but it was the first of her works mentioned. https://www.dailystartreknews.com/r...margaret-wander-bonanno-has-passed-away-at-71 This quote was less than a year ago. Getting old is worse than everything but the alternative.
I went on a nice date today. Short, Indian, crazy huge tits. I told her Norm's logic professor joke, she liked it. I almost didn't go, but since Norm died I've found I just don't care what happens anymore. The main story is fucking over, might as well enjoy some side quests until the game crashes for good.
The idea of what you do with your life after you've done what will likely be seen as the peak of it is an interesting one. Was in the audience for a talk with Julia Gillard a few months ago where she expressed the same sentiment, that no matter what she does with the rest of her life the first line of her obituary will read "Julia Gillard, the first female Prime Minister of Australia..."
For me, what always comes back is reading your post about only having heard of her 30 seconds ago and wondering who you were talking about.
Your accomplishments in life are important: they're evidence you did something of significance with your time. They may even have importance for others, and possibly be important for many years to come. But when your end comes, whether you accomplished anything or not, it will all be over. The satisfaction in them is only yours while you're among the living. When you die, you will (in all likelihood) soon be completely forgotten, and after a decade or three, it will be hard for an interested person (as if there will be any!) to find evidence you ever lived at all. Even if you have children and grandchildren, you will disappear from living memory entirely within 70 years or so. How much do you know about your great-grandparents? So it will be with your descendants and you. On a tomb alongside Rome's Appian Way is inscribed this inescapable prophecy: WHAT YOU ARE, I WAS WHAT I AM, YOU WILL BE Words to keep in mind. Cheery things to ponder over breakfast.
This really does depend on your values and personality. Yes, if you guide yourself by other people's standards and demands on you, then satisfying them would probably be of value in your self perception. Still, you do not ever want to realize your happiness is reliant on a whole bunch of people who can never be pleased, and in the end they are not going to be around to artificially boost your ego if you recognize you sacrificed most of your own good times and happiness to make them happy. It is a whole lot easier to skip the middle man and just enjoy your own life instead of wanting other people to enjoy it. What I consider important is often really different than what a scum sucking republican dickhead like Paladin does. This would seem to be a quickly changing thing due to technology. Many people document their smallest actions on social media. Right now I could look up archives of what I was doing 25 years ago. If I want to see what I did as a child I have a few photographs and a couple of short videos it took forever to convert to a form I can view. My niece and nephew have hours of videos of my grandparents holding them as babies and being there with them at holidays. They have far more than I do, and even more of their grandparents. They will probably have social media archives and whatever comes about to watch, if they so chose. If those archives are not damaged there will be archived information that anyone interested can find out about anyone. WTF does that mean? Oh wait, that means some simpleton read something from ancient rome and thought that was profound because it was old. Spongebob has more depth than paladin's entire life. Just a little note for your simpleton future primate relatives when they look up this archive.
