There are two paths to immortality.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin FranklinWhich will you choose?

I admit to cheating a little. Life’s unfair, after all, so why should we be fair back? I choose both.

I will do. I will do crazy things, just because I can. Better to ask ‘why not?’ than ‘why?’. And I will strive to touch the lives of others, in the most positive way that I can. Make the biggest splash, so that it may take the longest to fade away.

I will write and write. Write with fury, attack with definite quantity and hopeful quality. In this I hope to produce something worth reading. In this I hope to produce a work that carries my name into immortality.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? — Terry PratchettFor I fear death above all things.

But, I’ll not spend (waste) my whole life waiting to start living. Instead I’ll spend it living as hard as I can.

If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone else’s story. — Terry PratchettI fear death. It is human nature to fear change, to cling to what we know. More than that, I fear loss. Fear the changing of the guard. The out with the old, even if it brings in the new. And death is the ultimate among losses, so it stands to reason that it is the ultimate of my many fears.

Perhaps not the best driving force, the fear of death. It sure as hell lights a fire under me, though. For that I am oddly grateful.

Live hard so that you may be immortal, even if only in name.

GNU Terry Pratchett