Contemplating such questions is, for me, the way of madness. By definition, the vast, vast majority of us cannot go down in the history books. Anyway ... someone has to keep the machinery of society running while the heroes do their thing.

Religion taught me that I was god's special friend who he kept in his back pocket and lavished all his attention on. After I left religion I realized that in fact hardly anyone would notice if I vanished into thin air. This was a difficult adjustment -- but once I accepted it, I found myself able to extract pleasure from living an ordinary, flawed, "unimportant" life. Living within your true scope is one of the major secrets to contentment.

Lift the veil....

End stupid.