Do our individual lives matter in society?

Question from the Internet:

“How do you make your life matter in today’s society?”

Today’s society has become global, totally interconnected, and interdependent.

In effect, we all have become like single cells in a living, all-encompassing “Human body” that is also an integral part of Nature’s system.

Previously, before we became aware of this global and integral system we exist in, our lives mattered only to ourselves. All our dreams, desires, and intentions were about self-fulfillment, self-justification, and individual survival and success — mostly at the expense of others.

In our actual, fully intertwined, and interdependent conditions — actually, it was like that even before, but we were not aware of it — everything changes.

My individual life matters only if I can find my most optimal, positive and constructive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing role and function for the sake of the whole system. My worth, my positive or negative qualities, is measured only in relation to how much I can contribute — according to my inherent qualities and actual conditions — to the most optimal state of the whole.

And while, at first sight, it seems as if we just become grey cogwheels in an infinite machinery, by fulfilling our unique, irreplaceable role and purpose for the whole, we become extremely important. From the viewpoint of each and every person, one becomes the most important element in the system since, without one’s most optimal contribution, the system cannot work or survive.

This is why we urgently need a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method that can teach us how to become healthy cells — instead of instinctively behaving like cancer cells — in Humanity’s healthy, striving, and optimally developing body.