For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESVST)
The living know they will die, but often live as if they will not. The truth of the matter is very simple: we will all die. Death is as much a part of life as life. The day of our birth is special, the day of our death is special, and it is filled in-between with either meaningful or meaningless activity.
Meaningless activity would be activity that dies with the person or shortly after the person dies. Meaningful activity is something that will last for eternity.
Whenever we are involved in things that focus on us in the here and now, we focus on the futile. Then we wonder why we feel so insignificant. We feel insignificant because we have not enjoyed the source of significance.
We were made to enjoy God and will find no joy without Him.
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