Amelie posted an article that brings to light a certain unalienable fact about human nature. We all want to think the world revolves around us and that we matter.
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Let's play devil's advocate. Suppose we all believe that we don't matter. Our ideas, our voice, our thoughts are not important and no one cares about us. No one loves us. No one could bother with us. Then what will we have? Clinical depression and suicidal tendencies, most likely.
But in reality, it's true that we do not matter as much as we would like to think. What is the worth of a life? Senseless destruction of lives in the Middle East (and many other places too of course) forces you confront the reality, at least in parts of the world, that life isn't really worth all that much. Anyone that can convince you that you should blow yourself up has convinced you that your corporeal existence doesn't matter, at least in comparison to the heavenly existence that awaits you.
So, as Confucius says, "Keep to the middle ground and stay the course." In other words, be aware that you are only as important as you would like to think you are, but that it's okay to view yourself as important. If you won't, who will?
1 comment:
Corporeal. I just learned that word! YAY for me!
-anonymous 3rd grader
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