Severence Ep03
I know the death is near upon me because people have begun to ask what I see as my life’s great achievement. They wish to know how they should remember me as I rot. In my life, I have identified four components, which I call tempers, from which I derived every human soul: woe, frolic, dread, malice. Each man’s character is defined by the precise ratio that resides in him. I walked into the cave in my own mind and there I tamed them. Should you tame the tempers as I did mine, then the world shall become but your appendage. It is this great and consecrate power that I hope to pass on to all of you, my children.

15 years of time - long enough for many missions to be accomplished. Or short enough to cost a man's prime.
You come to this world, you work hard, you struggle not to just become rich and famous or not even for excellence.
You fight so those who you love can have a better life:

"I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."

To James/Daniel who has always been an icon of our time.

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent

planet.
我宁愿化为灰烬，也不愿化为尘土。我宁愿我的火花在灿烂的火焰中燃烧殆尽，也不愿被枯朽所扼杀。我宁愿做一颗华丽的流星，我的每一个原子都发出耀眼的光芒，也不愿做一颗沉睡的永恒的行星。