Immortality Comments

The dictionary defines immortality as 'enduring fame or remembrance' and these are qualities to which most of us mortals aspire. The need for recognition lies within us all and it is probably just the thought of death itself that provides us with the inspiration or drive to establish ourselves creatively in the world in the hope that we will leave something of our enduring achievements behind us when we depart.

There are those who will go to any length to achieve this recognition, whether in this lifetime or the next. There are those who don't give a fig one way or another and there are those who would stoop at nothing to have their name and associated 'doings' go down in history. Many have been immortalised through music, science or even by their merry and sometimes highly dubious philanderings, but it is comforting to know that it is well within the reach of us ordinary, run-of-the-mill folk to attain our own immortality, bearing in mind that whichever means we use, our success, or failure, will ultimately be qualified by the measure of how hard we worked towards earning, if not 'enduring fame, ' then, at least, 'remembrance.'
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