[Guest]

How significant/ unique do you feel your existence is?​

My existence is of extremely high importance to the earth/ humankind.	10	11.76%
My existence is of some importance to the earth/ human kind.	10	11.76%
My existence is of average importance to the earth/ humankind.	14	16.47%
My existence is of little or no importance to the earth/ humankind.	51	60.00%

 

[Guest]

How significant/ unique do you feel your existence is to humanity?

 

[Monkeydust]

I had to confess that "My existence is of little or no importance to the earth/ humankind.".

Now who was it who said they were of the greatest importance to mankind? I need to know so I can start worshipping you.

 

[sunyata samsara]

none

 

[resonantblue]

I feel like it's "none" but what bumps me up to "average" is the realization that we're all equally unimportant/important

 

[Visual]

Not to sound too negative but what is the difference between 'average importance' and 'little importance', given that the world has 7 billion people? Like above, we're all equally unimportant/important

Seems the most significant people are often so it a terrible way - you hear more about Hitler than about Mother Teresa. Perhaps it is just the media. Heard in a sales job that people remember a negative experience 7 times more readily than a positive one - what gives?

Most of us can affect only a small number of people who we are around - family, friends, … Which is fine - after all, if you can help just one person to feel/be better, isn't that worth something? It is ok to be little.

As far a 'unique', that is far different. Despite similarities there is a LOT of uniqueness going around.

 

[Zephar]

None, I'm never going to do anything big, probably not even really amount to much in a "successful, productive member of society" sense. But really, it doesn't matter. Nobodies existence really matters, except for them and the people who know them.

 

[Facet]

Its nice to stay under the radar of mankind.

 

[Depersonal Eyes]

I feel like once I get better I will lead the the "important" life that I did.

 

[dreamsofsomeday]

I have multiple views on the subject.

 

[daydreambeliever]

Hey, it's important to me! Whether I'll have any impact on mankind is doubtable.

 

[forestx5]

"No man is completely worthless...he can always serve as a bad example!"