The meaning of a life consists in certain roles, projects and achievements, those you have conceived and undertaken and those that have been conferred on you by the lives of others. This is a portrait, what you will be remembered by, the mark you left on the ways of the tribe. As such, your life belongs entirely to the world, and to a certain time and place or set of times and places. As for you, you are quite capable, perhaps quite likely, to outlive your life. All that has made up the figure that you are has already been put in place, you look back remembering the moments but knowing that you could not do them again, these things were entirely of a piece with their conditions. The you that is living presence, is more real, is detached from the world, cannot be owned or leave any impression, belongs only to the most distant stars.