You're here, right now, in this present moment, and you're worried that being here isn't enough. That simply existing and working and loving people and having hobbies and being generally decent isn't enough, that you need to be extraordinary to justify the improbable fact of your existence.

You're here, and you're anxious about it.

The insignificance isn't the problem. It's the solution.

Think about the pressure we put on ourselves to matter, to make a mark, to be significant. We choose careers based partly on how impressive they sound at dinner parties or on imagine appearances on imagined talk shows. We agonize over decisions as if the fate of the world hangs on them. We