I was presciently thinking about this homily earlier today before reading what I imagine is Patrick Mahones MVP acceptance reflection on his accomplishment.

LIFE IS A FATE LOTTERY. Each era favors certain acts and actors. Much like the random Mutli-Million Do$$ar Lottery winners, they are the more secularly favored 'chosen' for the social-civic skills valued in that era. It's neither a congratulations or a backhanded-shading on what they have done. It's another version of the maxim 'It's 'the Game' you would love or hate, than moralize over the players.

Within the temporal-secular paradigm this is 'the standard' and 'the measure'. I actually believe there's more dimension to existence than that from my anecdotal experiences as a contrarian to what is conventionally recognized as 'the standard' or 'the measure' of the quality of life being lived or lived.

Most-to-all express good intentions and ends and have done or tried to do so what is good for others and themselves. Yet, I THINK that what 'They'/We do is a surrogate for what we've yet to conceive of being, per my anecdotal cognizances of phenomena of my experience.

 It's not much they could do, anyways. I think it's the karma caste role they find themselves by the momentum of the forces of their background and whatever aesthetic intellectual fates have fatefully affected them in this present life.

We do make our own realities, but they can't be absolutely judged by others of our times. There's an emotional resonance and affinity to which we associate most strongly. It not only serves, hopefully, our daily intent but sets the stage of tangible and intangible props which others directly or indirectly experience for their emotional degrees of resonant imperatives.

I'll jump to this conclusion that there's a resonant state to be found in the ala carte choices of sentient affinity for which the temporal tangible and intangible trappings are no more than wardrobe and scene props. They're the metaphorical hand and foot holds by which we join in a literal common-union with an energy of identity selflessness in which we become -at the least-the figurative presence in the past-present-future, as well as the omni-point sensory receptor in those synchronous  synchronicities.