For others, then ourselves...

--"We do not simply live our lives for ourselves, but for those who came before and will come after us."
I think that this quote or statement is very true because a lot of the time we tend to do something to please the people that were are around. We will go out of our way to make the people that we love proud and pleased about us. We do these things for ourselves but we also do them for the people that look to us and to the people that look up to us. We want to lead a good example to the younger generation that is coming up behind us. These kids that look up to us, we usually don't know that they look up to us, so that is why we need to lead that good example so that they follow that instead of the bad side that we may have. We see the accomplishments of our parents, and that may be good enough but we tend to want more, and the more we have we think we need more, so we stretch our goal and achieve more. Standards are set, and to reach them we have to do more to get there. The occupation that my father is in now requires more education now then it did then, so there for we have to reach further to obtain that goal. When the day is done and we look back at what we have done, helping others is a better feeling that helping ourselves.