Eternity

Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity.
And so we ask ourselves,
will our actions echo across the centuries?
Will strangers hear our names long after we're gone...
and wonder who we were...
how bravely we fought...
how fiercely we loved?

I like that quote from the opening of Troy. It sounds so.. true. There are so many instances where we must make choices that would echo for a very long time. Maybe not a lifetime, but still very long - in relation to how short our lives are.

If they ever tell my story,
let them say I walked with giants.
Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die.
Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses.
Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.