In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to
live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with
which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately
afterwards.
Fame, wealth and knowledge are merely worldly possessions that are
within the reach of anybody striving for them. But your experience of
and feelings about life are your own and not to be shared. No one can
live your life over again after your death. A full awareness of this
will point out to you that the most important thing in your existence is
your distinctive individuality or something special of yours. What
really counts is not your worldly success but your peculiar insight into
the meaning of life and your commitment to it, which add luster to your
personality.
It is not easy to be what one really is. There is many a person in
the world who can be identified as anything either his job, his status
or his social role that shows no trace about his individuality. It does
do him justice to say that he has no identity of his own, if he doesn't
know his own mind and all his things are either arranged by others or
done on others' sugg estions; if his life, always occupied by external
things, is completely void of an inner world. You won't be able to find
anything whatever, from head to heart, that truly belongs to him. He is,
indeed, no more than a shadow cast by somebody else or a machine
capable of doing business.
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