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MY LEGACY

"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity."
Alexander the Great

I achieved my objective.

But unwillingly, I became known as the tireless leader who never acted selfishly alive yet died a selfish death by letting his empire – and his subjects – crumble once it was no longer his time to reign.

A good leader does not simply tell you the time, he teaches you not only how to build a clock, but to fix it and to read it as well.

I built a great clock, but as I raced against time, the clock fell apart and those that I left behind – from Greece to India – never managed to read time properly, let alone fix the clock when it slowed down and fell behind.

Perhaps my greatest achievement was knowing that one is only responsible for his actions once he is alive, for he cannot control the afterlife. I may have lived but a mere thirty-three years, but those thirty-three will go down in history as the most productive, eventful and Greatest in time.