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AnSionnachRua  ·  4013 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What meaning do you give to life?

I'm going to post some song lyrics so that I don't have to make any real effort.

    The only guarantee in life

    Is a life worth dying for

    Cause death don't wait for no-one

    Sittin' on your front door

- 'Guarantees' by Atmosphere.

Edit: Actually, in response to "leaving your mark on the world", that old poem:

    I met a traveller from an antique land

    Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

    Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,

    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

    And on the pedestal these words appear:

    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

    The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- 'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley.