I go into the world and try to treat people like I want to be treated, that’s all I can do.
Several years ago I was made an invalid in an automobile accident, for several years I did not have the mental capacity or the motor skills to exist as an individual. I have recovered fully and I am better than I was before the accident. The most striking thing I discovered when I returned to the world was that it went on without me as if I had never existed. I have had close friends die. I’ve buried my father and my wife and I think about them now and then, they exist now only in memory. When I die that memory will die also and it will be as if none of us ever existed.
I am able to look at the man in the mirror and say, “I do the right thing”, most of the time, and that’s how I lead a meaningful life. One day I will lay down and die and cease to exist and it will be as if I had never existed at all.