Im going to be dead soon. Some day I will cease to exist, simply gone. Just like the 100 billion other humans who died before me, crumbling to dust and leaving as legacy only the most esoteric and indefinable impacts on the future of humanity through my impacts on the humans around me which will be passed on to their decnedents. And I won't even be remembered for my art just my influence, if I'm lucky
like, what the fuck am I supposed to do????
edit: I forgot to set the community and it defaulted to !earth@hexbear.net so I mean whatever I guess fuck you
I find peace and purpose in trying to extend my ego or concept of self to include others, particularly working people. I exist as an individual and pretty soon that individual will die. But I also exist as part of a class of people extending into the past and future that will outlive my individual. So fighting for a better world can still be self-interested, even if my individual self may never experience the fruits of the struggle, because my larger social self hopefully will.
We are a species first and foremost. We are all a part of the whole through time, no more and no less than any other. There is peace in seeing the younger people rising up to take my place and love what I loved. It's that love that is most important to me more than anything else, whatever form that love takes I am content.