Consequential Nihilist

Sometimes, you'll be conflicted with perennial thoughts of nihilism. You'd fee blue and desolated. You'd think there's no meaning to life and that bittersweet notion of existential crisis would start growing up on you.

Speculations like these might seem persuasive and convincing enough for you to excuse yourself from your work and render you unproductive. Hypothesizing that everything is meaningless and nothing you do matters would throw you into a loop which culminates your contumelious futility. 

At times like these, what you need is NOT to think about how insignificant your subsistence is, but to think about how impactful your being can be. How the course of history could have changed dramatically from a minor tweak in the puny decisions that were taken long ago. How every little detail determines the fate of the entire world altogether.

What you need is an introspection of the boundless beauty of the butterfly effect. For you are the ripple in still water that would morph into an ocean wave. For you are the flutter of a wing that would cause a hurricane on the other side of the globe. 

You are a fortunate piece of creation for a self-aware species that happens to exist just at the right time on a tiny blue pretty dot that is located at just the right distance from it's miraculously burning star in the vastness of this ever-expanding universe.

You are consequential.