The flame that burns too brightly

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To live forever is a choice any one of us can make. It's a choice to do something worthy enough of being remembered, remembered as more than a handful of photographs in a shoebox, or, these days, a series of public tweets in the Library of Congress Twitter archive. The Internet may have changed the medium of immortality but the level of importance required to fully achieve it has been the same for as long as mankind has existed. From Socrates uttering sage words to Hitchcock changing the meaning of suspense through film, being immortalized as a household name can only be achieved by achieving the remarkable.

Sometimes remarkable people, through some misfortune or ultimate downward spiral, leave us too soon. We know there was more greatness left in them. More words. More films. More artworks. More triple platinum award winning albums. Whatever they had to offer, their departure is not just a loss for what they were but for what they could have been. What they should have been.