How to make history

I think you must have heard this before: big or small, our actions will echo throughout eternity.

If you throw a pebble into a pond, the ripples will fade, but the lake is forever changed.

Right.

So who knows about it? No one. Apart from maybe the lake, if it had consciousness. And heaps of people throw stones into it. Nothing really changes.

The fact is, what we do now is almost obsolete. The people we meet, the places we visit, the phrases we say...maybe they will matter to one person. At most 3. And the stories will die out within 3 generations, if we're  that lucky. Maybe that person we affect may cause a chain reaction cumulating in something....big? Eventful? Who's to say, we'll not know then.

That isn't really the game changer, the history making act that people want for themselves.

I know that the above statement is true, but it isn't something I want for myself.

The alternative? Tricky, tricky.