The Pursuit of Meaning

While attending Satsang one day, I had this question -- If things are just happening on their own, and change is fluid and ever present, and the Self is not affected by anything, does anything really matter in the long run?

Rinse and Repeat

Doesn't it seem like particular things happen over and over?  Usually this cycle it seems like, is something that is troublesome, feels like old rotten furniture thrown away that miraculously makes it's way back to your door.  You wonder why it's back and wince, getting a familiar vibe from it that you might not be fond of.  And now you have to deal with it again, either you have a band aid solution for it; pretend that it isn't happening; or once and for all look at it and figure out what it is, and solve it.