I can live this life because my belief crystallized through my own thinking is that all of us humans (and also animals) are important for the future. All of us are constantly influencing the cause-and-effect networks of reality through our choices and what is shaping up in our future. Who will be born here in the future and so on. Really, that way of thinking works as a good antidepressant for me.

I'm almost certain I'm not the first to come up with this way of thinking. It must be that this has been invented many times before me, but I am grateful to the 'higher' Powers that I mainly used my own thinking to get to this current understanding of mine.

This "everything affects the future" thinking is probably not for everyone. It enables a very amoral view of our choices, when all our actions - no matter how bad (or good) they are in terms of conventional morality - have a decisive effect on the future of all humanity. But on the other hand, this way of thinking can also lead to, for example, "positive" experiences of oneness with the whole existence. If a person is particularly troubled by great guilt and/or shame, this thinking can be useful.

Other important things that bring meaning and content to my life are my spiritual conviction, my relationships and the fact that there are no unbearable physical pains.

2023 J. A. Manninen
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