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Life A Work In furtherance     The average person has a grand total of 2 ane million million million seconds to live aside their existance. For those of us lucky enough to live out this eon in relative health, or to exceed it, shouldnt we be onerous for something more?     It ends, people. Life ends. There is coming a time when your tone stops beating and you lie dead and cold on the substructure somewhere--and that is it.     No redos, no timeouts, no second chances. Only the bittersweet what-ifs that you provide have plagued yourself with for the remaining moments of biography.     2 billion seconds doesnt seem nearly as long as my life feels, and I am still a kid.     And yet we waste time bickering all over the television, fighting over the computer, and resenting each-other over petty quarrels. A saying comes to mind when you consider how wistful people can be when you honestly consider that they would throw their time away on such things. It is a classic case of not being able to see the forest, through all the points. When infact, those trees that you are so desperately difficult to see around are the forest. You are get winding to get past that next tree and and then, then the forest leave be in plain site. Only, it isnt there, and one more tree is in the way. First the tree of graduation is in your way and soon the tree of college jumps behind it. The tree of mediocre jobs blocks your view for years as you try and see around it it. The tree of midlife, or of retirement get in your way as you try and see the trees of contentment, happiness and fulfillment that rove that yes, you have made a difference, and that when your two billionth second chimes to a close, and your eyes glaze over, you allow for not have been forgotten.     That is all we want, people. That is it. wizard simple goal that will push every America n until they die. That one goal of having meaning. Trying to hold on to the fact that, "if I necessitate a difference in psyche elses life, then mine will have mattered." So the question is, if making a difference to someone elses life is so important, and they are trying for the same goal you are, then why isnt making a difference in your own life just as important.