By being petty, cowardly, mean spirited, hypocritical, callous, or overly prideful. What brought honor, was in short, honorable conduct. The young need conditions from which to act. By following in example, or transforming in rebellion. Either stance requires a past.
Humans require a past.
Note to the import of living forever within the transitory. But nor is it this mere transitoryness with endless change, alteration, and distinctiveness whereby nothing that is now would partake of what was. Put differently, they will live forever, in the memory of transitory beings who will in the flow of time pass the story of courage on from father to son, father to son.