I don’t know how you can change your perspective, but every life has inherent value. If something happened to you, it would really fuck up someone’s day. If you have friends or family, it would fuck up several days for them. Even if you don’t have friends or family, whoever finds you and/ or deals with it would definitely not enjoy the experience. So simply by staying alive and healthy you are improving the life of multiple people.

Also, you’re probably having a more positive impact than you realize. If you help an old lady get her walker over a curb, that’s a huge deal to her, you might not even register it. Same thing if you hold the door open for someone carrying something, or any other little thing. It doesn’t even have to be an actual act of helping. If you buy groceries without being an asshole to the clerk, you are improving their day by reducing their amount of assholes per customer.

I don’t go around thinking about my inherent worth, but whenever I’m feeling down I try to do something nice and savor how I improved someone’s day. If it’s in person, I look for their smile. If it’s online, I imagine it. After I submit this comment, I’m giving myself a little pat on the back. I don’t know if it helped, but I tried, and that’s what matters.