The day we are born and the day that we die are truly important.  They signify the beginning and ending of our lives. However, what is more important, in my opinion, is the little line, the dash, that separates those two dates. This little line represents the life we lived. Our hopes and dreams, our successes and failures, everything we bring to our journey is within that line. History is full of people that we admire and fear. We are taught to remember when they were born and when they died, but it is the life they gave to that little dash, that made them important enough to remember the dates. It is the journey that we give to that dash that makes the beginning and the ending worth anything at all.