I know people who care greatly about the JWST but will go around the company slack belittling people for wishing happy new year, wielding a cosmic cudgel of unimportance on the day.

But everything humans find important are only that due to human and sociological constructs, whether calendrical or cosmological. Nothing matters, except what matters to you. The unthinking matter of nature is utterly indifferent (as far as we know or think).

– someone who drove a long, long way to see the same solar eclipse, no regrets!