The Mark
Some one asked me a striking question today. He said, How does a person make his mark on the earth and how would he know when he has?
My first response was a rhetorical question. I said, it sounds like that person already knows what the mark is and is only concerned with how to make it and how he'd know when he's made it. I continued after some amusements to say, "Making a Mark" is less about a destination and more about a journey. It's a search for a feeling we're never satisfied with. I think it's a quest to keep advancing. Most people who leave indelible marks on the sands of time weren't aware they were doing so as at the time they were at it (some knew, but to what extent the mark would last for, they could never have known), but years after they passed their legacies live on. The mark, I think, is in the journey.
The goal is to give everything to anything we're involved in, in all sincerity. If it's not worth doing, don't do it, but if it is, go about it in a way that you'd look back and say "there's nothing else I could have added or removed from this" and then move on to the next thing with the same drive. One day when you're not there, someone would look at what you did and concede "I couldn't have been able to do this even if I tried a thousand times" of course that wouldn't be true, you might have tried it ten thousand times before you got it done, but in that moment, you've left an "impression" in that person, and what other synonym could there be for an impression? You guess right!