Life as it comes .... and goes

This question keeps on popping in my mind, why am I doing what I am doing? I can take it all easy, leisure around, break rules, create complete anarchy, have fun, and do what the hippies and sadhoos do. After all they have known the ultimate truth that everything is "maya". There is nothing that you got to the world and nothing that you will take along. So why do you worry so much. Why do I feel so tensed when you get late to work? Why that worry written large across my face everytime there is a code crash and my manager calls me up? Why the big frown on my face when the waiter comes back with a huge bill? Why do I spend so much money on beauty products if all of what I am will ultimately turn to dust? I have already completed half my life here and its the rest 30 years I have to be here. My being here, does it matter? for its not just me but the planet on which I live which is bound to perish. Every other we have predictions about the probable end of our days and the world panics. Scientists come up with proofs to question the veracity of those claims. However we all know, any of these predictions can be wrong but none of us can avert the Red Giant created by our sole energy provider, the Sun. Since that will happen in another 5 billion years, we have an upper limit on till when will life exist on earth. It shows how numbered the days are for the mankind on earth.

But then its one perspective. The duration of life on earth is personal to one self. For me the duration of life on earth is not 5 billion years. Its the remaining 30 years of my life on earth. It doesn't matter what happens to the earth once I am dead. Anything that happens doesn't affect me. I think unconsciously the whole world is treading on this line of thinking. Thats the reason why we see large nations full of highly intellectual people causing irreparable damage to the environment we live in. The serious damages they have caused to the drinking water reserves, the hole in the ozone later and melting glaciers don't seem to cause any concern in these learned communities. Maybe they also have realized the ultimate truth about life. The truth that life on earth ends when their life on earth ends. Thats why they don't care for the future of their children. Whether they live or die doesn't seem like a question that can bother them.

They seem so justified when I think from this angle.

But what if these technological advances had happened just 1000 years back, and our ancestors too had thought this way .....