Ekaterina N. (ILI) - A Global Perspective on the World Destiny

Sometimes I think about what the future will be like. Mostly there is a feeling that everything will be fine for me. Of course, sometimes a mood comes over you and you draw scary pictures in your head—about the emergence of some illness, or scenarios of global warming, the extinction of animals due to human fault. Then you think that anything can happen at all: a comet could collide with the Earth, and our form of life would disappear—and so what? There will be something else; there is nothing scary about it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your consciousness, you will understand, roughly speaking, that you are a grain of sand in the Universe. And people—what about them? They rush somewhere, hurry, and there is no meaning in it at all; we will all die anyway. And when some difficult circumstances arise, when everything presses on you, when a life situation becomes tense in a bad way, at that moment it seems to me that you need to relax a little and say to yourself: “Why are you actually twitching like this? What will change because of it?” And then, in that relaxed state, everything will somehow go by itself, and it will become easier. If you don’t do something here, it means you didn’t need to do it. Then it naturally turns out that you will do it later. Everything will be fine anyway. I don’t have a feeling that everything will be bad; I have a feeling that everything will be good!

Even if an asteroid collides with our Earth—well, there will be no Earth, no humanity, but there will be something else.

Our planet is 4.5 billion years old; humanity is about 2 million years old, of which we have been developing consciously for, at most, 50 thousand years. Sometimes you think that on the scale of the Universe our fuss means absolutely nothing.

In general, if all people thought about this, it would be easier to live. For some, this awareness would remove the “crown from their head,” and for others, on the contrary, it would give determination—there is nothing scary in our world, and one should not be afraid to take action.

In general, I live by the principle of King Solomon: “This too shall pass,” and “There is only a moment between the past and the future…”—and from this it follows that everything will be fine, and one’s “moment” should be lived with dignity and meaning. I would only like my family and loved ones to be with me throughout my life. For me, I suppose, one of the fundamental components of life happiness is not to outlive my children and grandchildren, and to communicate into old age with friends, interesting people, and like-minded souls.