If you stop to acknowledge the profound situation that is your
current life from the perspective of reincarnation, you can only
realize that you might not be living it to the standard that it should
be lived.
Consider a hypothetical past life, say twelve lifetimes ago, as a dung
beetle.
Disregard the possible arguments regarding the true
definition of happiness and contentment (i.e., that a dung beetle
might actually be a higher level of enlightenment and could possibly
be a better life) and look at it from the logical point of view that you
have now.
Do you think that all those lifetimes lived and endured while moving
“up” to your current life are duly honored and justified in the way
that you are spending this pinnacle life that you have achieved now,
or are you wasting it on trivial matters?
Did you roll dung, hunger, endure illness, labor, get persecuted, etc…
in those past lives, only to achieve this wonderful opportunity at life
and squander it on pettiness?
Watching television, scrolling Facebook, working too much, and
sitting in traffic are probably not what the dung beetle and Indian
peasant were hoping to achieve.
Do better.