'Nobody will care' is missing the most important person's opinion - your own! I don't agree that most stuff created gets thrown away or forgotten, especially i

'Nobody will care' is missing the most important person's opinion - your own! I don't agree that most stuff created gets thrown away or forgotten, especially in the sphere of intellectual achievements. We live in the age of the internet, or as I think of it - 'perpetual memory'. Storage is cheap, communication is free, search is instantaneous and context is being built through sites like Hacker News, for example. So the real question is, in my opinion, are you proud of your choices? Are you proud of how you spend your time? Do you meet your own standards? Do you want to attach your name to your work, your intellectual achievements? If the answer is yes, how can it not make you happy? We live in an age where our needs for food and shelter are easily met (at least in the US), and we can afford to pursue the higher elements of our hierarchy of needs. If we achieve self-admiration, then does outside validation even matter?