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Life A Work In Progress     The fair person has a grand total of 2 billion seconds to run low out their existance. For those of us lucky enough to live out this clock time in relative health, or to exceed it, shouldnt we be trying for something more than?     It ends, community. Life ends. There is coming a time when your heart halt beating and you lie dead and cold on the floor somewhere--and that is it.     No redos, no timeouts, no second chances. Only the bittersweet what-ifs that you will accept plagued yourself with for the remaining moments of demeanor.     2 billion seconds doesnt keep an eye onm nearly as big as my life feels, and I am still a kid.     And heretofore we waste time bickering over the television, fighting over the computer, and resenting each-other over petty quarrels. A saying comes to mind when you consider how sad people can be when you honestly c onsider that they would throw their time amodal value(p) on such things. It is a classic case of not cosmos able to see the forest, through all the trees. When infact, those trees that you are so urgently trying to see around are the forest. You are trying to take aim past that next tree and then, then the forest will be in plain site. Only, it isnt there, and one more tree is in the way. inaugural the tree of graduation is in your way and soon the tree of college jumps tin can 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 affirm that yes, you stimulate made a difference, and that when your two billionth second chimes to a close, and your look glaze over, you will not perplex been forgotten.     That is all we want, people. That is it. One unsophisticated remnant that will push ever y American until they die. That one goal of having meaning. Trying to hold on to the fact that, "if I make a difference in someone 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 wherefore isnt making a difference in your own life except as important.