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I think living an extraordinary life in service to God is about the only way it's going to matter. Pascal's Wager and all - if there's nothing after this, then nothing we do here matters. There is no "extraordinary" because the universe will erase all difference when it reaches equilibrium ("heat death of the universe").

So the only way it *can* be extraordinary is if there's something after/outside of this existence. The cool thing about an extraordinary life in service to God is that it is independent of living and extraordinary worldly life. Look at Jesus or any of the early martyrs - not exactly worldly successes given that they were pretty much all tortured to death.

Alternatively there have been well off saints too, so if you mean "extraordinary" in terms of financial wealth or whatever, that's attainable. Like I said - service to God is independent of worldly life status.

I'm not intentionally proselytizing so much as presenting the way I see it. One of the things that made my life really feel extraordinary was having children. I mean it happens to millions of people every day... but it's extraordinary when it happens to you.

As to being a cog forever, well, you aren't God, so get used to it. You will always be a part of something greater than yourself and never the something that is greater than everything else.