“Time is relative. In human life, time is experience. The faster you archive a significant experience to your memory, the more you live in the same clock time. In physics, experience is represented by the distance traveled, and this entire thing is called the Relativity of Time. I want to age and die through archiving my experiences, not watching my biological clock. Please don't waste my clock time with mediocrity and egotism, let me use it towards serving to others.”
I read about a performer who I had never heard of until very recently. She has over 175 MILLION followers on Instagram. 😕😏
We have to be constantly aware of a very basic fact: The vast majority of people are involved in complete nonsense most of the time. People work a lot - that is important but it just feeds their body. The rest of the time it is games, Facebook, movies and countless other diversions. The Internet is called the "Web" for a good reason....
What about their SOULS??? How much time do people spend focusing on their SOULS??? Painfully very very little if at all.
So sweet friends. you have a BIIIIIG HUUUUUUGE HUMMMOOONGOUS TASK!!! You are representing Hashem here on the planet earth. There is NO time to waste of silliness and SO MUCH to accomplish. You "get it" while so few others do. Essentially, you have to keep the world going and make it worthy of continued existence.
A HEAVY charge - but you can do it! And don't say "there are other Tzadikim who can worry about the big things - I am going to spend 3 hours on Facebook or watch a movie on Netflix". NO! בשבילי נברא העולם - For YOU the world was created.
Or the HAUNTING Rambam [Teshuva 3-4] that expresses so powerfully the notion of INDIVIDUAL responsibility - *me* being the individual:
Wake up you sleepy ones from your sleep and you who slumber, arise. Inspect your deeds, repent, remember your Creator. Those who forget the truth in the vanities of time and throughout the entire year, devote their energies to vanity and emptiness which will not benefit or save: Look to your souls. Improve your ways and your deeds and let every one of you abandon his evil path and thoughts.
Accordingly, throughout the entire year, a person should always look at himself as equally balanced between merit and sin and the world as equally balanced between merit and sin. If he performs one sin, he tips his balance and that of the entire world to the side of guilt and brings destruction upon himself.
[On the other hand,] if he performs one mitzvah, he tips his balance and that of the entire world to the side of merit and brings deliverance and salvation to himself and others. This is implied by [Proverbs 10:25] "A righteous man is the foundation of the world," i.e., he who acted righteously, tipped the balance of the entire world to merit and saved it.
