Post by Daisuke on Jan 23, 2011 20:27:17 GMT -5
I wrote this a while back. I hope it helps those of you who need some cheering up.
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Insignificance is an illusion best left spoken by the simple matter that all things have a purpose bigger than they will ever know. Imagine that you have maybe been in the same classroom as the President, back when you were young. He may have been influenced by your behaviors, whether you were the troublemaker and he used you as an example of what not to be, or strived to be like you. Your purpose is never known, but understood only by those you affect. Stone, sand, grass, insects, humans, and all life can be changed by one moment, and at the center of it you may find yourself the cause, or the effect.
If only we knew what we cause and who it affects, we would certainly be shocked at how important we really are. The euphoria, such a wondrous and beautiful thing that we created, would never come to be from our awareness that it came from us. Imagine an anomaly of such magnitude that the world may change forever, influenced by it or destroyed in its wake. What, then, would come to be? The earth would stretch its arms wide over the horizon, and reach out to you, the one who changes things.
Everyone has an effect and a cause. The knowledge of this would only bring them to do without both, and their ideas or knowledge would lose itself in the generations to come, forgotten. Like a stone, we are history in its purest form. One never knows fully what they will do or accomplish, and that is the world as it is supposed to be. A stone that you throw to the pond to bounce may have once been a stone tripped upon by an evil dictator, and that may have stopped him from becoming larger than he was. To stop and think about these things would certainly give one a new perspective on appreciating life and open them to all manner of new experience.
Ouch! A bug stung a person, and they cry out in pain. That person may have been there at just the right time for that bug to not sting another, like a major politician. What if one saved the next great inventor, simply by being near him when a mosquito flew by that carried malaria? What would one think of themselves if they knew they helped to give that great inventor their life, and they didn’t actually do anything? The world isn’t meant to know how important each individual is, but rather the effects of the individual will be felt by all who inherit them.
To truly understand life would be to ruin it. Watching the world go by is what we are meant for, not to understand it. Our lives change the world so much, individually, and we may never know it. If we did, those things that set the change into motion may never have come to be. We go as unsung heroes, each individual life on this earth, and we will stay that way to ourselves. To others, we may be the driving inspiration to create and shape the future.
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Insignificance is an illusion best left spoken by the simple matter that all things have a purpose bigger than they will ever know. Imagine that you have maybe been in the same classroom as the President, back when you were young. He may have been influenced by your behaviors, whether you were the troublemaker and he used you as an example of what not to be, or strived to be like you. Your purpose is never known, but understood only by those you affect. Stone, sand, grass, insects, humans, and all life can be changed by one moment, and at the center of it you may find yourself the cause, or the effect.
If only we knew what we cause and who it affects, we would certainly be shocked at how important we really are. The euphoria, such a wondrous and beautiful thing that we created, would never come to be from our awareness that it came from us. Imagine an anomaly of such magnitude that the world may change forever, influenced by it or destroyed in its wake. What, then, would come to be? The earth would stretch its arms wide over the horizon, and reach out to you, the one who changes things.
Everyone has an effect and a cause. The knowledge of this would only bring them to do without both, and their ideas or knowledge would lose itself in the generations to come, forgotten. Like a stone, we are history in its purest form. One never knows fully what they will do or accomplish, and that is the world as it is supposed to be. A stone that you throw to the pond to bounce may have once been a stone tripped upon by an evil dictator, and that may have stopped him from becoming larger than he was. To stop and think about these things would certainly give one a new perspective on appreciating life and open them to all manner of new experience.
Ouch! A bug stung a person, and they cry out in pain. That person may have been there at just the right time for that bug to not sting another, like a major politician. What if one saved the next great inventor, simply by being near him when a mosquito flew by that carried malaria? What would one think of themselves if they knew they helped to give that great inventor their life, and they didn’t actually do anything? The world isn’t meant to know how important each individual is, but rather the effects of the individual will be felt by all who inherit them.
To truly understand life would be to ruin it. Watching the world go by is what we are meant for, not to understand it. Our lives change the world so much, individually, and we may never know it. If we did, those things that set the change into motion may never have come to be. We go as unsung heroes, each individual life on this earth, and we will stay that way to ourselves. To others, we may be the driving inspiration to create and shape the future.