Forget about the lifestyle change and don't bother with pets. My advice to you is to take a handful of Valium. Next, fill your bathtub with warm water, get in, get comfortable, and drop in the toaster. There's even an Internet poll that's been the subject of much discussion. Perhaps if he hadn't lost to the Knicks last year.
Most people here look to political figures.
Ghandi, Hitler, Churchill, King, Reagan. My guess is that, much as these figures have influenced the goings-on of today, none of them will matter much in two thousand years. Maybe one of the Henrys. But when we think great and ancient we usually look to the arts and sciences. Aristotle, Plato, Copernicus, Socrates, Kepler, Newton.