When we see a great person on the world stage, and are lucky enough to with joy be able say something like, “I knew him! I knew that guy!”, what we are really saying is “My life effected their life, I am part of this”.

Remorse, that you are not up there being great too, inevitably follows.

 

Something worse happens also, and it may sound arrogant in the extreme, but I feel regretful that my life has never effected so many great lives. I have never given back greatness, to true greatness. I feel without a voice, without a witness to my life because of it.