We all live our days consumed by our own importance.  Yet, reading and studying history as a hobby, almost everyone I study has been long forgotten. Maybe they passed on some genes, maybe they did not.  Maybe there are tens, dozens, or 100s of people living today who share some of their DNA, or maybe no-one.  They also lived their days and maybe breathed their last death doing or thinking they were doing something of importance.  Yet, today, who knows, and to a certain extent cares.  So what is left, a gravestone, a memory, a picture?

So I prefer to think of karma.  The idea that good acts matter.  That good acts can change the balance of history, of life, of the universe more to the good and less towards the bad. That if the great arc of history is moving towards the light, that living a life that creates good karma helps it do so.  So that hundreds of years, tens of thousands of years, millions of years from now, when my dust is not even dust anymore, that some action I did today or tomorrow, like a fleck of light has and continues to turn the wheel of the universe towards light and away from darkness.

So consider joining me in making that iota of light.

© words by Dan DeMarle