How can I stop seeing the futility of EVERYTHING in this world?

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answer:You’re in good company with Hamlet: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Looked at from one point of view, it is all empty and futile. Everything does come to dust in the end. But if we take another perspective, if we think of the process and not the endpoint, if we give our minds a wider sweep than just our narrow little personal domain, if we think of meaning and not just of matter, if we consider others besides ourselves, or if in any number of other ways we enlarge our view, we no longer think we’ve seen it all just because we’ve seen impermanence.

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