Take time to appreciate our ancestors
We’re standing on the shoulders of giants
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.
Seneca
How motivating is knowing that your contributions here will help or hurt future generations? We’re all a cog in this beautiful machine of humanity that keeps it rolling forward. All of us are playing a unique role that will echo into eternity; you are causing your own individual butterfly effect. The energy you’re giving to those around you spreads and creates a cascading domino effect; just as a butterfly wing flapping millions of years ago could have caused a typhoon into days age, the negative or positive energy you’re dispersing can create a state of change in the deterministic nonlinear system and result in more drastic impacts in the future. Pursue a virtuous path and perpetuate greatness for your people just as our great ancestors before us helped solve many of today's problems and evolve the human consciousness further.