On accountability - Part 3

Part 3: Everything matters

-If you look at life from the simplest view point, it is a quest in which you have a lifetime to achieve all of your dreams.

When younger, I placed the most basic building blocks of life (events/thoughts/experiences) into two categories - matters OR doesn’t matter.

To me, being a cynical, angry young man - I was always under the impression that absolutely nothing matters. All signs point to our death and, hey most of us aren’t making the world a better place. More people are adding to the worlds problems than solving them so, obviously, who cares? Nothing matters. This view point allows people to throw some level of caution to the wind and a few other luxuries like making decisions quickly without foresight and planning, acting without care. Essentially, you can always put yourself first without care of outcomes.

The flip side of this - everything matters, is one that requires a lot more time, consideration and energy. If life has taught me anything, it is that every thought, action and minute of time have an impact on something, somewhere. There is no more truth in life than the fact that absolutely everything matters.

I touch on this for accountability because we must care about life and give it the time and energy it deserves. There is a ripple effect, whether you believe you are sitting in your own pond, you are, in fact, sharing the pond with the rest of the world and the universe beyond. We aren’t isolated and neither is any event. The quicker we own this, the quicker we live more examined and purposeful lives - and, to me, that is the very foundation of accountability.

So, where are you making waves?