When reading part 1 of why You are Insignificant you may rightfully determine it to be a little nihilistic. Life is meaningless, so why try? While I do admit that, by itself, it does end a bit glumly, it only tells half the story. The other half is filled with much more of what some may consider "feel good non-sense". However, I feel it's actually "feel good sense", as it's quite sensical, and I've applied it to great effect in my own life.
Life isn't meaningless, but it does only have the meaning we give it. We get only one life, and we spend so much of it being concerned with trivial decisions. We spend so much more of it being concerned with what others think about us and the trivial decisions we make. The truth is, even the teeny fraction of our daily decisions that matter only matter to a tiny number of people, and often only to ourselves.
Everything I've written so far is to illustrate just how meaningless life is when lived only for others. If nothing you do really matters,
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