This piece was written in response to Fragment

In my lifetime...

I have dreams you know... In my lifetime, I wanna acheive some things. I wanna lie on my death bed one day and say that I have done something with my life.

A friend once told me that .. "When you are born, everyone around you laughs and smiles while you cry.. but you know you have lived a good life when at ur death bed, you smile and laugh while everyone else cries."

I live by that. I don't want to invent new cars, i don't want to be the world's saviour, i don't wanna be the one who discovers how they get that caramel inside that sweet chocolate... but i do wanna make ppl smile... I do wanna pass on my way of thinking abt life to my children. I do wanna live a life worth living.

What does that mean anyway? Has anyone lived a life worth living? Gandhi? Charlie Chaplin? Mother Teresa? Isaac Newton? .. what makes someone special and stand out of the crowd as a person who has led a meaningful life. What is the denominator across which we divide these two groups. For is not the doctor who saved a life great too? For is not the lawyer who fought for his innocent client's life also cherished? For does not each and every one of us have the ability to be just that.. a person who smiles at his own death?

sadly... not all of us will experience this happiness.. in my lifetime I hope to do things that will help me smile on my own death bed..