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Ever wonder how insignificant you are?

MACDRIVE

MACDRIVE

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Feb 17, 2006
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Ever wonder how the world would've made out without you had you never existed? I ponder that notion myself sometimes and I'm mystified by the answer I come up with. The little voice inside my head (whom I'm assuming is my conscience) says that the world would've been just fine without me; as a matter of fact, it wouldn't of skipped a single beat. :cool:

What's the point of this thread you ask?

I don't know, it's kind of a pointless insignificant thread I suppose. :eek:
 
Yes, but you can never know for certain. You might have helped someone out at some point, and made a tremendous difference in their life which allowed them to make a great impact on the world. Nobody can really know just how many other lives theirs has affected.

I sometimes dwell on how insignificant my life seems, until I realize that I have touched many people's lives in small ways, and (usually) made their lives better in the process.

Did I make a huge difference in the world? Probably not, but there's always a chance that my interaction helped someone else make a big impact on the world.
 
It's an interesting question - so many of us are full of our own importance, but very few of us have made a major difference on the world. To the world at large we are mostly insignificant.

However, we can have a huge difference to the world around us. My world is richer since my daughter was born. She doesn't have to do anything except be herself.

I don't aim to be known globally - I just want to deal with the people around me.
 
Apple don't know how to fabricate their own chips, and Intel don't know how to put electronics together. together, along with other groups of people known an Samsung, Foxconn, Nvidia etc, they can make an awesome computer.

individually, we're just bags of blood and guts, but when we work together, we can do awesome stuff.

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I think we all are ;)
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we're reminded about 20 times each day :rolleyes:
 
I have made a noteworthy contribution to the workplace, but in other respects would be considered a non-factor. Such is life.
 
You're only insignificant to those people who don't care about you. To the people who care about you a lot, you're significant, and you have affected their lives. Then they affect other peoples lives in their own individual way, but part of them is due to knowing you well.



The little voice inside my head (whom I'm assuming is my conscience)
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I certainly hope it is. :confused:
 
MACDRIVE said:
What's the point of this thread you ask?

I don't know, it's kind of a pointless insignificant thread I suppose. :eek:
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Threads like these are never pointless or insignificant, because they give the rest of the members a chance to tell the thread starter that they are more pointless and insignificant than the thread. :p

More so when the people are in administration, management, politics, or are lawyers -- since we can likely get along fine without a large percentage of them.

It's those pointless jobs that make people significant, because without burger flippers -- people would die from their sheer inability to forage for food or cook.
 
Insignificant!

As far as I know I'm the only thing on this world that really matters. When I die the world and everything in it will cease to exist!
 
Something I saw once.

Lazlo's Law of Chinese Relatively.
"No matter how great your triumphs or tragic your losses, approximately 1 billion Chinese couldn't care less."

I think it would be cool to have a its a wonderful life moment. Then again look at what happened when it happened to Al Bundy. Everyone was better off without him.
 
I know I'm not even as significant as a particle of dust.
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To the people who care about you a lot, you're significant, and you have affected their lives.
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Maybe, but to me, that's something I always struggle with-- how can we ever know if someone truly cares about us? :eek:
 
I think it would be fun to buy one of those "I'm Kind of a Big Deal" t-shirts to wear. :D

But yeah, I worry more than I probably should about my legacy, what (if any) contribution I'm really making to society. It seems to be getting worse the older I get. :eek:
 
As a westerner, I contribute more than my fair share of damage to the environment, reduction to the food supplies, and inane blather to the digital millieu. And that's without getting out of bed.

Now I'm going out back to plant a tree as compensation.
 
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