The Big Bang vs. Personal Satisfacion

Which would it be?
1. Living a long, average-Joe life, but remaining known only to a small group of people, or
2. Living large, dying in your early twenties, but remaining insanely famous for the next 1,000 years.

The choice is obvious to me. Average-Joe all the way. While being famous is high on some people's priority list, to me fame is merely a relative state of being. When fame is mentioned, most people automatically think of the cliched movie star who runs around at parties, acts like an idiot, and makes the daily tabloids. But who's to say what famous really is anyway. There are many different types of fame. You could be rock star famous or founder-of-a-secret-island famous or even small-town-America kind of famous. You don't have to live it up in Hollywood to become known. Think about it, corpses that have been popping up daises for decades are still recognized everyday for their accomplishments. Newton, Einstein, Caesar, George Washington, and many, many more. Not to mention the fact that all these people lived long, satisfying lives and died at old ages.

Furthermore, what is so wrong with getting educated, finding a well paying job, settling down, traveling the world, raising kids, and growing old with the one person you've been able to stand for more then five minutes at a time for the rest of your life? Absolutely nothing. That's my plan. Even though my life so far may seem short in comparison to others, I have learned at least one important thing about myself. I'd much rather prefer to have many small, spaced out adventures with my close friends than to have one big adventure with random people I've never met before. But that's just my personal preference.

One other thing to consider is that people who die young and go out with a bang most often have the most painful ways of dying. When you look back on history, there have been rapes and murders, drug overdoses, bullet wounds that slowly kill you, drowning, and suffocation with poisonous gases. Now, which one would you want. Take your pick, but they all sound very painful to me. Old people are suppose to die, so naturally theirs would be much more painless. Those who want to die famous and young will probably have the saddest end of all.