> How does it make you feel? The insignificance of our existence, everything that we ever did, or will ever do.
It (that knowledge that everything I will ever do is absolutely irrelevant on the grand scale of things) makes me feel more powerful than ever and let's me split the relevant stuff from the irrelevant.
Instead of running after one dopamine rush and living my life at 200km/h I enjoy it more.
It takes a lot of pressure away. Maybe being a stoic helps too :D
But I am also coming to a conclusion that we shouldn't really let the scale of universe come in way -- but if we can let it affect things positively, great, no harm.
Reason being: For anything to make sense, it has to have some context (example: these words make sense to you, but not to one who doesn't know English). When we make the context (or space, or time) unfathomably larger, things we have control over lose their meaning, their impact, it literally becomes nonsense? And so we should probably keep it away. Good as a thought exercise & fun, but impractical. Now you can counter-argue saying what's "practical," but that defeats the point :)
It (that knowledge that everything I will ever do is absolutely irrelevant on the grand scale of things) makes me feel more powerful than ever and let's me split the relevant stuff from the irrelevant.
Instead of running after one dopamine rush and living my life at 200km/h I enjoy it more.
It takes a lot of pressure away. Maybe being a stoic helps too :D