What We Must Accept

To seize the opportunities of our origins, we must accept three things.

1. Accept death. Death is part of the cycle of birth and rebirth that the universe and nature constantly go through, and we must embrace it. When we are young we are curious and constantly strive for change and new things; as we mature we gain experience but embrace change less. The cycle of death keeps humanity alive. Pursuing eternal life is futile and will lead to our eternal destruction. Not accepting death makes us fearful of change, and we lose our adaptability, which will eventually lead to our downfall. We live forever as a species, and individually we live forever through our descendants and our ideas.
2. Work with the universe and nature, not in opposition to it. Working against nature is futile. This applies to everything: we tend to assume we are above the laws of nature, but this is never the case. We destroy mangroves to build beach houses, and the houses are then destroyed by the flooding that the mangroves would have prevented.
3. Accept risk and challenge. Being challenged builds resilience. Humanity currently tries to reduce the challenges we face, which makes us less resilient, less adaptable and weaker people.