Can you be the best person you ever met?

We have often heard that Life is short but exactly how short. Exactly how important our lives are, exactly how important our money is, exactly how important our friends are. The fraction of seconds when a person knows that he would die, for example, a seriously injured soldier on a battlefield, a person when sees his murderer along with his weapon targeting him , an old man lying on a hospital bed and sees all his family members sitting with him because they have been told that he has only few hours left, those are the times when people realize how short our lives are. How irrelevant everything is or have I made enough impression for the people to remember me?

Here is something excellent from Wikipedia on Pale Blue Dot:

During a public lecture at Cornell University in 1994, Carl Sagan presented the image to the audience and shared his reflections on the deeper meaning behind the idea of the Pale Blue Dot:

We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there – on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

[...] To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

— Carl Sagan, speech at Cornell University, October 13, 1994

An absolutely stunning piece to read on an evening when you are too busy about your office work and not being able to give time to your family, or too engrossed about your friend for not caring enough, or too concerned about your career as to what should you study or where should you work. I loved how Sagan has described the world so beautifully in his speech. Is it very important to live our lives in disharmony knowing that we would die some day and this won't matter then? Even if you live peacefully, it won't matter after you die. But yes, you will live a full and happy life. Those fraction of seconds before you die, you need not care about a single thing because so far you have lived your best. Be the person you would love to meet.

Help a soul, if you can. And if you can't help, please do not destroy one. If you cannot be a source of happiness in someone's life, do not be the reason of their sorrow. That will eat you up slowly if you have a little conscience left in you. Love and care for people around you, it won't cost you much :)

I'll try to do the same.