Glory
You will be able to hold your head up high knowing you did something really and truly wonderful.
You will be able to tell all future dates what a truly remarkable, wonderful person you are.
Your college alumni group will run blurbs about how you saved the faces of thousands of children in their monthly newsletter. All your old flames will read it and get jealous over what might have been.
And your mother will kvell about you on her Facebook page for all eternity.