What have you done to benefit humanity during your lifetime? What have you done to further the human race? What have you done to ensure that the people of tomorrow are cared for and will live in what we can only hope to be a better world that that in which we live today? How have you made a difference? How have affected the people around you? How have you affected the Universe? How far down the rabbit hole were you willing to go?
I can't help but feel like people are squandering their potential in favor of chasing small pleasures and living day to day, working and toiling away without doing anything substantial or having the ambition to change the world for the better. I mean, is playing baseball really a crowning achievement? Is that something to actually be proud of? Is making people "more productive" something to be proud of? Hooray, they're happier at work. They're content with being nothing more than being drones? Congratulations. You've done the most you could possibly do with your life.
That sounds incredibly dreary and ordinary.
Of course, I'm in the minority. I've spoken to all of my friends and to their friends and everyone seems to be perfectly content with doing nothing more than being a blip on the radar. And then of course they'll complain about the rich having more money than they ever will and how horrible people in power are or how they wish there was something they could do to make the government better, as if they really don't have a say in the matter and they're destined to just live a middle class life until the day they die.
Things and materialism make people happy temporarily, but far too often when people take a step back later on in life and actually review their what they've done, they can't help but feel unhappy that they really haven't achieved anything in the grand scheme of things. Maybe I just hung around too many old people when I was a kid. Maybe I'm just a dreamer or maybe I'm just a moron for wanting to do something huge with my life.
If you're okay with simply passing along, that's perfectly fine, but there are way more options out there available to each and every one of us than people are aware of, whether it be because they were never made away of those options or because they simply choose to ignore them.
To each his own, I guess, but I feel humanity's destiny is far greater than most people believe and we're not going to achieve our potential by simply doing as we're told and hoping
someone else fixes our problems or does something that we can all mooch off of.
