As a single human we are never alone.
As a human you are a culture, a planet of life where each individual cell works together to keep their society alive and thriving. Trillions of cells each living their own individual life, experiencing pain, pleasure and death (not to get started on the number of other organisms!).
To me it never made sense to think of myself as anything static. We are never the same person throughout life, and personally I am fond of this idea that each night we die mentally, and we're reborn again the morning after. We get this idea of being static because of our memories still being intact, but loosing conscience is what kills who we are today.
That you are a living culture is exactly why you should challenge yourself, evolve, and arise new, over and over. You might fail over and over again, but you have the power to change who you are; leading your "planet" to something greater. That is something any individual cell in your body can never do throughout their life. Therefor lies a great responsibility on your shoulders to move forward, while all the individual parts of your body does their best to keep you alive and virile. No matter what happens in your life, they will live and they will die with you.
I enjoy to extend this perception to our planet as a whole as well. Whole societies of humans share a conscience, however different each human might be. We are sharing knowledge and trying our best to keep as many of us as possible alive and healthy, so the human species can continue.
One day we will look back at the tiny blue dot far, far away in the endless sea, as we are travelling through space to new horizons, and a greater future.
Life will move on as we experience pain, pleasure and death. It can feel very lonely at times, and you might fear that in the end you will just live and die alone. But that is not true. You have so much life inside of you that works to keep you strong, that you are obligated to work just as hard to bring life outside of you. Our legacy, blood and thoughts will live on for as long as life exists.
Share your love.
Share your pain.
Share your humanity.
We are in this together. Let's rise to our greatness.