I think the little things definitely count. I'm not a perfect person, I've wronged and hurt others. But I've also done a lot of good, and am 100% positive I've made a difference in some people's lives. I'm sure my existence will have a lot more impact once I'm practicing as a nurse. Until then I do the best I can in the little ways to try and make a difference. And sometimes it's the little things that in fact make the most difference....so who knows. I try not to be driven by my ego.

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Originally posted by josh4 sorry all i hear from you is 'ive been pwned' i gotta hit the gym now

selective listening, a winnar is you! hey ta has a very useful tool for people like you too weak to deal with words on your screen: it's called ignore list. use and concede your low sense of self esteem. anyway, back on to less boring things...

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anyway what i mean by experience > legacy is you can be 150% career your whole life, spend 30-40 years building up a successful business, amass a fortune and never leave your home town of houston until you retire, but how much did you really live? even at that point, once your generation of people all die off no one is going to remember your mark. i'd think that the world traveller living on a fraction of the income with no fortune to speak of in his old age still lived a richer life.

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This is an excerpt from an email my friend wrote me. He's a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan right now. I think it's fairly relevant.


Well I met alot of cool people on my trips, and learned alot about myself. In the last 4 months I've experienced combat, lost a few friends and made some. I've climbed and summited one of the 7 summits, challegend nature's greatest predator (great white shark), and rode a bird (an ostritch) of course.

Ive definitely changed, I dont know if for the better or worse. I've seen a lot, and now that im back I've learned of a few more friends that I have lost, to this crazy thing we call war. But I guess thats the nature of it.

One thing that has changed is that, life is such as loosely kept thing, one minute it's there, the next it's gone. I've had friends hurt me in ways they will never understand, and not even (to their defence) realize it. I've had women (even the ones I loved) take away all self worth I had, and have had other experiences to which one questions the very basis of right and wrong.

I have hurt and even intentionally wronged people in my life, and have shut out the people most important to me from getting to know me in fear of letting my guard down for a reason I have never known.

But I do realize my mistakes now and have seen life being taken in less than a second from someone very close to me, and a part of me died with him. But in turn a part was born. I understand, I forgive, and I forget. For life is too short and too fragile to not live for each other.

So take my advice and do so: help any one you can, and be kind to all, even if you've been wronged. For one day you hold a grudge, and the next day you're gone. So in the end, what does matter?

And thats why we get high...maybe...

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Originally posted by igottaknow Besides accumulating material goods and doing things to gratify yourself do you do anything else meaningful? If you died tomorrow what would you have to show for your existents on this planet? Besides your family and gf would anyone miss you? This might be too deep of a topic for the COR but I thought I'd rattle your cages for the fun of it.

This is something I think about maybe 4 times a year. I want to be known positively by a decent amount of people when I pass away, though of course it's going to be a while before I can do anything that will leave such a mark in our world...

I was thinking maybe a quicker way to the goal is to learn programming or something, get my engineering degree quicker, and make one nice piece of hardware or software. Also, I wish to make electronic music and do photography for a living too.

Of course, as each year passes, someone with such a limited amount of true creativity is at a further disadvantage, as there's so much out there that has already been thought up of, or is in existance already.

We are infinitesimal nodes of heat at an uncertain point in existence. We define our continuum through words and ideas like 'space' and 'time' but these are just human measurements and approximations - things that the rest of the universe doesn't necessarily abide by but we have come to observe through our limited sensibilities. We know we are made up, but of what? Of whom? Are we just piles of thoughts and memories drifting on the ether of humanity or are we far more astral beings, destined for apotheosis in our own right, destined to become everything and more, vibrating beyond the forever we have limited our thinking to by choice. We are heat.

The universe is innately cold and dark, by all sensory indications - perhaps at the very base of things there is what can only be ineffectively described as a 'void' by our language - though the words 'black' and 'empty' cannot begin to describe just what this absence truly means. We are ephemeral beings, individuals pulsing off and on and off and so on like a spectral bulb of sporadic luminescence. The forms we know and recognize are products of time, or more specifically, movement - friction with the vibratory existence of this continuum, remnants of something amazing that happened a very long time ago. The more we touch one another, emotionally or physically, the more we contribute to the essence, the heat, that is our existence. Love, hate, jealousy, kindness, magnanimity - all ranges of interaction with one another contribute to the summation of our collective sentience, the being that humanity is at the very core of things; this being is a result of a result of many results - a product of one person touching another touching another and so on, a sort of eventual effect of variables. Whether it was meant to be this way, so uncontrollable, so misunderstood, so broad, so vague and yet the effective result of our choices and every day decisions, is really not of consequence - for we cannot change the essential components of change, try as we might. We are drifting upon the ebb and flow of human misery - your attempts to free yourself of this pointless, recycled reality are just contributing to the heat of humanity. Heat does not last forever on this plane though - as we careen towards a state of universal entropy, no matter how many aeons away it awaits us, the fear and the enigma tug at the most base parts of us, inciting feral and monstrous manifestations of phantasmal scope and similtaneous incorporeality.

I think that whether or not you affect the life of the cute Spanish girl at the grocery store after you die should be the least of your worries.

The meaning in my life comes from making other people smile.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Clovis86 The meaning in my life comes from making other people smile.

You live for other people?

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Fortuna Favet Fortibus.

im a wortless piece of shit, nobody would care if i died.

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www.soundcloud.com/rinster

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Originally posted by Allied Nations You live for other people?

Yes!

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

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Originally posted by Clovis86 Yes!

I find that hard to believe- but if so, that's pretty intense. I have fun with other people, but at the end of the day, I'm living my life- and no one is going to live it for me. I have to do what I want to do myself.

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Fortuna Favet Fortibus.