One of the things, that really struck me, when I started working on the green desert project with Hans, was the scale and ambition of it.

His majesty Sheik Zayed, wanted to do something that was beyond his own time.

He created a dream, for his people to hang on to and create an atmosphere of hope and striving.

We human beings need to have something to strive for. We need to know, that there is a positive goal out there in the horizon.

A goal that we may not reach ourselves, maybe it will be our sons and daughters, maybe further down the line of generations.

Like Rav Ashlag, who dreamt that one day all three monotheistic religions would come together and thereby make peace.

It seems unattainable. Yet the scope and the ambition inspires.

Like the first settlers who dreamt of an Eden in the US, a paradise to strive for.

We inherit these dreams and visions.

We can choose to work for a positive vision or to get sucked into the destructive tit for tat of war.

We can choose ourselves, and if we do choose the positive vision, we use our lives to build and make a better world.

When you get old and look back at your life, the most important thing to have done is to have built something.

A family, a nation, a business.

If you can look back at your life and see that you used your life for the betterment of the human species in some small or large way, your life will make sense.

Life is chaotic and difficult to navigate. Yet, positivity, construction and striving for something better is what we should do, if we want to make our lives truly matter.

It is not easy, because the destruction of materialism is there all around us. We should not be naive, and off cause we should defend ourselves. But we should be honest to ourselves in the realization that the meaning of life, is to create.

G-d bless the will to be creators ourselves.