People like me don't get a happy ending do they?

We all die eventually. In the short period before, called life, we have the oppertunity to better ourselves, and create ourselves, as we wish, within whatever limits are set by our health, biology or restrictions due to circumstance. We can chose to give up, early on, and decide we'll be nothing, then nothing we become. To be as good a person as you can, in whatever way it is you chose, is to achieve our own potential, however far that may be. An optamistic attitude, and a desire to better oneself to the greatest degree possible, can bring us satisfaction in at least knowing we didn't give in, and did try to achieve all that was within our grasp.