The well-proclaimed show, Suits’ best closer, Harvey Specter once said, “Poker is not about playing the cards, but the people.” This made me think, well isn’t that basically what life is. As much as it has to do with our contributions to the world, it has more to do with the impression that we make and others remember. The debate of which is more evergreen is easy to resolve, as we have witnessed the accomplishments of Madame Curie and Albert Einstein and many other great women and men that have lived before us. Their legacies will be taught to endless generations to come, yet the doubt remains…is that really what they wanted. I can’t speak for them, nor any other greatly accomplishing donors of knowledge of our society, yet I can speak for myself, and say I would disagree. Machiavelli could write a thousand more books about the brutality of the human heart, and yet isn’t compassion each of our greatest instincts. Doesn’t this call into question how each of us spend our one life on this earth; our one chance to really seize each day, without thinking one day when I die, but instead thinking today since I’m alive. In this thought, there is an undoubtable selfishness present, but the price of such a sin may only be that one day we may fall into the arms of our fatal ends: doesn’t everyone, so is it even a consequence. Well, all the rhetorical questions can be picked apart by each of us like vultures picking at a dead body, with both scenarios never reaching an end, or we could agree to disagree from the beginning and make what we want of it ourselves. To me, this question is answered simply: our legacy is more valuable existing with those who took a piece of us, and whom we have a piece of as well. Those we have shared moments that cannot be recreated, moments that they will take with them to their grave. And yes, this legacy is not eternal it is tied to the mortal lives of those who have grown with us, but doesn’t it add to the rarity and thus the value of the memories themselves. We cherish our world war veterans, for there are so few that have experienced such extremes of both tragedy and victory. So, why do the rules change now?