Came across this interesting article on a different perspective: You Are Everyone and Everyone Is You:

Here's an excerpt:

I came across an interesting piece of writing by a man named Andy Weir. [...] It’s called “The Egg”, and what takes place in this piece is a conversation between “God” and a middle-aged man in his afterlife. God tells him that the man is dead, and that he will be reincarnated to a peasant girl in 540 AD. Confused, the man asks why and how can he be reincarnated into someone who has already lived in the past (and even someone of a different gender). God states that time is just a man made concept, and that, to God, things are different. The man then asks what many of us on Earth would ask if ever in this situation: “So what’s the point of it all?”

Below is the conversation that takes place afterwards:

"The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”

"You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”

“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”

“Just me? What about everyone else?”

“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”

You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth…”

“All you. Different incarnations of you.” “Wait. I’m everyone!?”

“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back. [more]

So what if we, our individual selves, were everyone? What if everyone was simply a different aspect of yourself? I found it really interesting and began to wonder what my life would mean if I were everyone and if everyone were simply different reincarnations of me in different periods of time: past, present, and future.