Question

Sorry for opening a new thread; it just wouldn’t let me continue in the previous one..
Another point I thought of, which may actually be a broader extension of the first point, is that the attempt to attain status and social esteem is in fact our way of leaving a mark on reality and living forever in human consciousness.
That is—perhaps the inner idea behind any meaning our existence may have (whether personal meaning or a general meaning that encompasses all of creation) is eternity.
The search for meaning in our lives, and in life in general, is our attempt to overcome the transience of our existence, which gives them a sense of pointlessness. And in a culture that holds that nothing has meaning and nothing is absolute, except for whatever human beings deem valuable (again, here I feel there’s a leap in what I’m saying, and I’m not exactly sure what it is or why, and I’d be glad if the Rabbi could sharpen it if possible)—in such a culture, the attempt to leave a mark and attain meaning will in any case take the form of an enormous striving for the esteem of society, the one that confers value.