"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

I have so much to prove to myself. I want to be the best at what I do.

The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.