Nothing in this World Matters

Is it true that nothing matters?
If I die today, will nothing have truly changed?

Yes and no. My mom will cry for a few weeks. My dad will take a month off from work. My siblings will grieve and mourn for a few weeks. Within a month, my siblings will be back at work. By three months, my parents will have settled my finances.

In six months, there will be a feeling that the loss has been overcome. In a year there will be an anniversary of my passing.

My position at work will be filled within 30 days. My apartment lease within 14 days.  Someone else will be driving my car, within one to two months.

My writings, pictures, music will be deleted when my PC is recycled.

My memory will survive with my parents until they pass away. With my siblings for a few years, until I become a distant thought. My memory will live in one or two pictures, to reminisce about, on occasion.

People in my life have passed, nothing in my life changed. After my grandparents passed, I went to work the next week. The world didn’t stop spinning.

99.9% of what we do changes nothing. We work, strive, diet, lift, pose, create and we get the benefits of those actions immediately. They don’t travel with us when we die. Most often they don’t even travel with us into the new year. The week TikTok was getting banned, an alternative was waiting in the wings.

Consider everything you were watching, thinking about, getting emotional about in the last year. Most of that has passed. It’s long been forgotten. What you spent hours on, for entertainment last year means nothing to you today.

What we do on this planet, what we do during these moments, is for us. The things we get attached to are so fleeting.

This understanding allows us to operate in a way that aligns with our time on this planet, just as we were supposed to be, as humble travelers.