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Sure, you can go down the road you've started on. Hell look at my life. I'm a TV photographer. I take pictures of life but never actively participate in it. The vast majority of humanity does not see my work because they're not in my market. By tomorrow most of those who DO see my work will have forgotten the pictures they saw tonight. What's the point of my job?
I get off work and go down to the animal shelter to walk dogs. Eventually every dog I walk will be dead. Once they're all dead, what does it matter that I helped them? They certainly don't remember or care - - -they're dead.
Everything humans do is to fulfill a need that, if you wait long enough, won't mean a damn thing. The trick is to realize that the future meaning of today's works just is not important at all.
Viewers might not remember every picture I took but if I do my job right they'll remember the story and maybe it will have a positive impact on their life or cause them to have a positive impact on someone else's life. Stranger things have happened. And so what if we'll all be dead 100 years from now and the fact that one of my stories helped get a homeless guy a job and a bed doesn't mean anything to anybody. It meant something to us, now.
Your comments are a direct reflection of why humans invented religion. Without a god or some sort of "higher purpose" life on earth seemed pointless. Of course, the religion inventors didn't stop to think "well. . .what purpose does this God of ours serve? Why is GOD here?" But it's very comforting to think that what we do now is watched over by a being we can't understand and that there's a higher purpose to the universe than the one that's visible to us now.
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