We are history's little soldiers

I on the other hand am walking through a larch wood and every step I take is history... Perhaps I don’t do any great things, but history is made up of little anonymous gestures; I may die to-morrow even before that German, but everything I do before dying and my death too will be little parts of history, and all the thoughts I’m having now will influence my history to-morrow, tomorrow’s history of the human race.
- Italo Calvino, The Path to the Nest of Spiders