Self awareness and the natural law of conservation

Not exactly an epiphany but still, i was stuck by this thought

Self Awareness- This is a huge thing if you are intelligent enough, but it may not be very useful if you are too impatient. 

On a slightly related but unexplainable note, I do believe, there is some natural law of conservation. I mean not at the micro level, but overall i think, the natural law of conservation would be one of the key ingredients for sustainabiulity and  existence of life. Ofcourse this has theological and philosophical connotations. But that's  for some other time