Every person has a biography (born -> did -> died).

Although, to quote Michelet: the little people end up
even more dead than the rest because their names
are not preserved in history.

But, among those who are higher than the low and
lower than the high....

Some have resumes (e.g., computer programmers),

while others have curriculum vitae (e.g., college
teachers).

All perish; few publish.  (I once read/heard that
90% of people who get anything published never
get a second publication.)

Carpe diem (i.e., complain about how your time is
stolen by your job or lack of same).

I've been rereading a little essay by Hans Blumenberg:

    Shipwreck with spectator: Paradigm of a metaphor
    for existence (MIT, 1996)

Perhaps the most lasting image from this essay is the
idea that the sea effaces the wakes of all ships, big
and small, afloat or sunk.  Therefore, to
speak of a "path" through life is at best questionable.

\brad mccormick

--
  Let your light so shine before men,
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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