what would the world be without you?

Question

this is just a hypothetical question. imagine if you're not around in this world. you were never born. basically, you've never existed. but your parents are still around. your friends are also around. your school, your work, your wife or husband, kids, everybody and everything you know... they're still here.

would the world be a better place without your presence? or would it worsen? would it make a difference without you in this lifetime? think about it. what's your comment?

Answer 1

I wouldn't know...I won't be here to see. But from what I see of my life now...since you're making me think about it...I think I do contribute to this world. I can't seem to get my own life together, but I'm great at helping everyone else get their life together. From since I was young. I have a nice long list of people that I've helped...people that I didn't know well when they first approached me with their probs. My home is like a halfway house, there is always someone in need crashing at any given point in time. From abused iraqi girl introduced to me by a friend, to gay guy with family that hates him met in school the first day and he chose me to confide in, confused bi girl that was emotionally a mess and about to light bed with lover in it on fire, she just appeared to me at work on her first day...I say appeared cause I was buried in paper work, looked up and there she was with tears in her eyes sitting at my desk. Just to name a few. The latest a hindu woman who has been through so much **** that she has totally isolated herself from everyone. Met her while coming from an interview a few weeks ago and for some reason she reached out to me. So I do think I am here for a reason, because there is no other way that I can explain why total strangers with issues come to me for help.

Answer 2

It's easy to see a huge gap if you take me out of "my universe" of close friends and family, aquaintances and random strangers I've happened across - those I influence at all, whether on a daily basis or once in a lifetime.

But to imagine that same universe without me having ever existed would be like trying to imagine our galaxy without the Earth. No, we're not the center of it, but we're a pretty important part of it, and the whole relationship of the universe as we know it would be completely different otherwise.

I see how I affect those around me, both positively and negatively, and I know those effects would never have occurred - at least not from me. Perhaps there would have been another person - or other people - who would have similarly affected those I myself have affected. Perhaps not. The close relationships I have with people wouldn't mean anything, as I wouldn't exist for them to love...

Sorry to be "talking" so much without actually saying anything.

What I mean to articulate is that the world without me would not be that radically different, and any differences that would be perceivable couldn't be, since they would be based on the foundation that I was there (and now am not), but I don't, in this hypothetical question.

I am still young, and wandering down a path that is still rather unknown. I do hope and pray to make something of a difference in this world, be it on a large scale, or as a set of little fingerprints on many people's lives. Without me, those imprints of my actions and my personality wouldn't exist, but nobody would know that, so it wouldn't make a difference, only insofar as how much I actually have managed to help or been unfortunate enough to hurt those people.

I might as well just stop, since the more I type, the more inarticulate I feel and the more urge I have to try and make up for it...by writing more... =)

Good question; bad answer (on my part). Sorry.

Answer 3

The world would not be the same, and I don't mean to be a braggart. Just like the Law of Relativity, you are related to each and everyone in this world even if I have a less than mundane existence. Imagine your best friend without you or your girl friend or boy friend if you may, minus your presence, your impact in this world is much more than what you think it is.

Answer 4

Well, if I wasn't alive in the first place, my mum wouldn't had to have a surgery to get me out of her tummy. Then, my lil sister wouldn't have me as her sister. Then, she wouldn't have anyone to get jealous too(lol, it's true but it doesn't matter). Hmmm.. I guess the world won't be a better or worse if I'm not alive. Oh woW, so that mean I do have my place in this world. I tried to imagine it what it will be like if I'm not here but, it just got weird and empty. People will just have as much pain and happiness like usual but somehow there's an empty space, for only me to fill in.

^_^ I guess that's why everyone is unique, huh?

Answer 5

I think that it si some one of the best questions which I hacve ever seen.

I think that for a girl, if I would have not existed,she woyuld have hardly understood Indian Love, for my publisher, it would bne difficult to find someone would translate so chepaly. I have made a difference in the life of many people.

Answer 6

My Parents would have been pleased if I hadnt been born, because I was a rebel. Being the middle child, I rebelled against my older brother, trying to "browbeat me, into submission", and my younger brother, being the favorite for being last, (older one was favorite for being first).

Oh, they were dissapointed I wasnt a girl instead... (I'm quite happy being a male :).

My wife would have married a bum probably, and had a more misearable life...(Guy who wanted her had pit bulls and the dogs mauled some kids, so, she would have had her kids fed to them I guess).

My place of employment would have been happier with out me, as I was a pain to them too... (Yea, never got over my rebel streak, and it got worse in the Marines).

Oh yea, the Marines wouldnt of cared, because I would of been cannon fodder for them anyways... one more jarhead dead if we went to war...hmmmm

My kids wouldnt of been happy, not being born!

(TWO good things in my life, eh?)...

Other than that, I dont really know what sort of impact that I have had on others, other than ordinary life and making aquaintances and friendships... some are better knowing me, and others are better off not knowing me...

Its a trade off, I guess...

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 7

Of course the world is impoverished by the absence of any of us. We each have a unique and irreplaceable function is the cosmic order. At the same time, we have no framework for assessing the implications of our own absence.

More to the point, "Merry Christmas, you wonderful old building and loan..."

Answer 8

Basically I mostly complicate life for people... sometimes that's a pain in the neck, sometimes it's enriching. I hope I make people stop and think now and then, though... don't know what life would be without me but glad I'm here, anywho!

Answer 9

This answer would be missing for one.

Other then that I imagine the world a bit colder. Less smiles on the street.

I would not say world changing but I would miss me.

Answer 10

I THINK THAT DEPENDS UPON WHOME WORLD IS CONCERN

AND THE STATEMENT OF MINE WILL NIOT BE APPLICABLE TO ALL
AS IF I HAD NT BEEN BORNED THAN THE WORLD OF
my enemie; will be great
my friends: uncolourful
my kids: orphan type
my wife: unahppy without love
my parents: SAD.