FWIW, each living being is connected in an unbroken chain to the original reproducing life form that existed roughly 3.5 billion years ago. Which means that each of us is related, however distantly, to every other living organism on this planet and that we're all playing a part in a grand, cosmic process that has been going on for an unfathomable amount of time. Thinking about that is one helluva cure for my nihilism.

Might be for you, too.