A life spent in the service of humanity is not vanity. Life becomes all vanity when one takes stock in later years and regrets the emptiness of a life lived just to appease one's fleshly, conceited and selfish desires.

Solomon, in his last days, seeing the futility of his life of utter disobedience to all things agreed, and the resultant punishment, penned his lamentations. His kingdom had been split and a half taken from him.
The world, in the usual manner of running with sound bites, chose to parrot ? that life is vanity.

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