Whats the point in stressing about the minutia of modern life? We are but a blip in the cosmic fabric.

True happiness for me is the successful balance of the natural dichotomy (division/segmentation) of realities (truths) that our beloved brains can create: my experience and feelings are my current reality, which encompass the desire to succeed in providing for my family. The love and pain I experience are very real in this reality.

There exists another reality (call it meta reality) where these are all biochemical reactions and that ultimately our current existence is insignificant. For all we know, we are living in a Roblox/Minecraft simulation.

Too often I am stuck in the grind mindset of daily life and don't appreciate the meaninglessness of each of my actions and interpretations of my experience in the broader universe. Comparing myself to others, be in career or financial, is a trap; realising in the end we are all impersonal, soulless historical figures is liberating, not defeating. It is freeing to accept this - provided it is not at the expense of your experiential reality.

Money, fame, fortune, power - these are are fleeting concepts through the passage of time. Power and influence today become legacy tomorrow; eventually legacy becomes letters on a page as you are added to the rolodex of historical figures whose spirit have long been dissociated from the letters encoding their name in the annals of history books.

King Henry VIII is no more significant today than the peasants he tormented. His name may live on, and his actions may define his legacy as far as history is concerned, but he is no more of a person that has shaped modern society than the impersonal law of gravity. Some may say this endurance of your brand is worth striving for, but unless you believe in another existence from which you can observe, the question remains: if you're dead for 400 years, who cares about any of this?

If everyone is ultimately reduced to a name and date on our single planet, why are we striving for relevancy if it starts dying the moment you take your last breath?

We are here for a good time, not a long time. Best we must appreciate this without compromising the ability of those who come after us (ie our children) to mould their own interpretation of the world. This is the best of my understanding as it stands today; ask me tomorrow and I may have an update.

A successful legacy may be accepting that you anonymously have left the world better or easier for those to define their own reality and meaning to existence.

Now back to starting a business...