'Time is the fire in which we burn'

Faced with the reality of time, its beguiling to consider indifference and lapse into a lethargic state of living where by ambition fades into memory. How many hard knocks can you take before you let go of your dreams and wallow in the warm embrace of inevitability? It would be so easy to just let go and not care.

Rather, one might do well to consider the advantages of having a goal and ambition can be a goal unto itself. The rewards of tenacity are not dependent on acheiving a definitive victory, but equally so on striving towards victory. Onwards, and ever upwards, the examples set by the great pioneers of science continue to inspire, though my plan to be the first space marine on Mars is probably no longer viable...