What matters in the end?

Some might say: To pass away in happiness without regret. To achieve something great.

I can give hundreds of quotes on this topic and innumerable view points.

To each his own!

Now I want to ask the Q: Do some people really have a choice?

NO!

They didn't choose their parents and upbringing.

They didn't choose their economic status when they were young and therefore all those things that were influenced by it : education, health, nutrition, good job.

They didn't choose the various factors of conditioning during their childhood to have the right psychology when they grew up.

They didn't choose their atmosphere of growing up during childhood that could influence their future.

Alright, when they grow up some people can overcome all the negative effects in their lives, but remember these people will be so few you can count them on your fingers.

Rest of the people will just go with the flow and wherever life takes them. And some will be happy with the outcomes, some unhappy if their definitions of happiness didn't fit their conditioning and some will definitely have regrets of not acting when it did matter.

Who does what doesn't count in the universe's book of happenings.

Individual achievements or failures have no meaning in its cycles.

Still the universe runs unstoppable with infinite energy.

What matters or doesn't matter to human beings is based on their different perceptions and interpretations but immaterial to this universe!

If a thing is alive it has to adhere to these definitions in order to survive and flourish:

Responsiveness: Living things can respond to external stimuli

Growth: Living things can grow

Metabolism: Living things can metabolize

Reproduction: Living things can reproduce

Homeostasis: Living things have the capacity for homeostasis

Organization: Living things are highly organized and contain specialized, coordinated parts

Adaptation: Living things can adapt

A living being can skip some of these things because of some pulls and pushes of life but can still ‘survive’ for some time.

If the thing is not alive the environment and its interaction with it dictates what route it should follow.

Unless you have a highly controlled and stable mind when you reach adulthood, you are like a non-living entity subjected to various pulls and pushes of your circumstances ,

What can just a piece of paper blowing in the wind do about it and except for your immediate surroundings, who or what cares about it?

Even life or death doesn't have much meaning in the universe's view point.

People come and go, rocks form, get plateaued, erode and disappear. But this universe doesn't care who is coming and going and which mass of matter is doing what or becoming what.

All that matters is just in your mind, in your little world, not in the biggest picture of this universe.

Art work by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa