Save yourself

The basic instinct of life rests on precisely this principle. We expanded for that would leave a mark. Next, who can really stretch out for years. Not a fact, but it can. It is the desire to leave behind a trail guides most of our life.

The most primitive example - family and children. It is available to most people, it worked during the formation of humanity, and we have no reason to doubt that it will stop working. Our children are our future. The question is: how reliable they give us in time? Where is the guarantee that we can give them the right education, the right education, they (in turn) will offspring? "Make" the child of course, is relatively easy and the process is studied and understood. There is nothing fundamentally new, and indeed, we can help ensure that our baby would be born as healthy as possible. We can also influence it, developing as a person. Raise genius - a fairly popular idea for many parents.

But we are not going to them. We cultivate a new, unique personality. Our genes - is not he. And we performed its function, at exactly the moment when it begins an independent life. And the meaning of our lives - is lost. It does not even lost, and ceases to be relevant. All that we have fulfilled the purpose and can die in peace. Not very bright prospects, right?

Leave offspring - natural method "leave a legacy" in the history of the world. But what if there is a higher purpose? Print theorem, which will be called by thy name, to open a new planet, write a bestseller ... directly contribute to the fact that the name might be remembered to everyone. This is a great, loyal, proper purpose. This does not negate the importance of children. But this may compensate for their absence.

Be what you remember. Push humanity into something great, to bring to life more value and innovation. Great people and so famous that the focus of attention has shifted to the whole of humanity. And what we have in the rest? Their names recall their faces they know their legacy use. Who was the president of the United States during the life of Einstein? Which kings ruled by Denmark, during the life of Shakespeare? But who needs the names of the rulers, who were only a background in the lives of these persons ...

We reserve ourselves the very great, which can be in the universe. In constructivism and creation. And their shapes - a great many.