“Living off borrowed time, the clock tick faster”, is how the rapper ,DOOM, simplifies life. Every human-being is given about 100 years, 900,000 minutes, and however many millions of minutes from the moment of birth. Death ensures that humans steadily repay the mass loan of time each day. With such a huge investment given, it is to be used wisely to ultimately make lives valuable in the end. So, what decisions do people have to take to make their lives valuable?
In Paulo Coelho 's book The Alchemist, Coelho suggests that life is valuable when there is balance of the pursuit of a “personal legend”, and being happy. Early in the book the protagonist meets a wise-old king, who educates him on life and its purpose. The wise old man tells a story of a boy who sought the same answer as he did, in his story the boy meets this all-knowing wise man and asks for the meaning of life. The old-man gives him the menial task of balancing oil in a spoon and to see the beauty of his house. The old man concludes by stating, “The secret to happiness is to see all the marvels of the world and to never forget the drops of oil on the spoon” (Coelho 32). The spoon of oil represents a burden, a task that humans are to pursue, while the “marvels” are the carnations of happiness and indulgence that which the physical world offers. When the scale tips, a person can become either selfish or dreadful. For example, when the protagonist meets a crystal merchant, who has been selling for many years at the