Do you have the need to leave your mark? Or is it just survival?
2007-03-30 04:46:50 · 23 answers · asked by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess, in the grand scheme of things, my life is not important. But since I'm here, why not make the most of things and enjoy all that being alive entails?
For whatever reason, I always felt it important to have children. So I had one. And then three more (triplets).
To these kids, I believe I'm important. I'm a parent, a role model, a teacher, a mentor and sometimes a friend. I'm responsible and so, in that respect, I guess my life is important. It's important that I finish what I've started and make sure, to the best of my ability, that the outcome is a good one--I leave behind self-reliant, kind and valuable people (my children as adults).
2007-03-30 04:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by allaboutthewords 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not chance. There are probabilities. We are here because we are here. My life as an individual is important to those whom I help. There is no objective importance to my life. I don't have the need to leave my mark, but if I do then it is good. In the grand scheme of things we don't really matter for anything other than the dents that we make on the earth.
In 65 million years we will matter as much as the dinosaurs.
2007-03-30 11:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by NONAME 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't need to leave a mark. That's about the ego. The key is that I'm going to get the most I can out of life. I pass on what I learn not for immortality, but so others benefit from my experience.
2007-03-30 11:53:24 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's pretty darn important to me, and I hope that it's important to my family and friends. It is equally as important in the "grand scheme" as your life, and as my sister's life, and as the life of a schoolgirl in Tokyo, and as the life of a farmer in South America, etc. etc.
I want to make the world better for the people that will live on this rock after I do. This is not for any hope of immortality but because I feel I may as well do something important for the years I happen to be here.
2007-03-30 11:52:56 · answer #4 · answered by N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life is not any more important than the ants who aerate the soil. I am just as important as the oak tree. I am as useful or useless as I allow myself to be. I am worth all the gold in the world to those who love me. I am not worth a pile of dirt, because, after I die my body is not worth as much as the dirt which is sold by the yard.
I survive to help others, to enjoy life, to bring happiness where it is needed, to educate others. And I can do all these things without religion or a personal mythos as a belief.
2007-03-30 11:56:14 · answer #5 · answered by Nepetarias 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only need i feel is the need to enjoy every moment of my life. The only time i try to leave my mark is when my enjoyment of life is trivialized by people trying to tell me how to live my live & how i should worship the lucky charms leprechaun or the easter bunny or some other imaginary icon taken from a fairy tale book that was written 2000+ years ago!
2007-03-30 11:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a true atheist b/c of all the chance occurences but I'm very much aware that my 'belief' is based on my ability to comprehend. BTW, that ability also enables me to see that an individual deity that created everything can not exist.
A true atheist must consider their life very special, since it does involve so many chance occurences to exist.
2007-03-30 11:56:35 · answer #7 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Not an atheist, but...)
The fact that life may have come about by chance has absolutely no bearing on how much it matters to those of us living it, or how much we desire to live happy, fulfilled, 'meaningful' lives and to enjoy quality relationships with other human beings. Of course, people will go about this in different ways, but the fact that not everyone believes they were placed here by God does not necessarily mean that they therefor do not think their lives have value and purpose.
2007-03-30 11:52:15 · answer #8 · answered by completelysurroundedbyimbeciles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"How important is your life?"
to me, very. in the grand scheme of things, not at all.
It's all a matter of perspective, or scale, if you will.
And no, I don't have this driving ambition to 'leave a mark'. Out of all the billions of people people who have lived in the last 6000 years of history, how many do you know? You'll be lucky if your great-grandkids remember you.
2007-03-30 11:56:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My life is infinitely more important in my opinion than a believer's is in their opinion. They get infinite time when they die, they think, whereas I only have this time. As for leaving a mark, I don't want to leave any. I want to enjoy my life and I'm perfectly happy thinking that I may be completely forgotten when I die.
2007-03-30 11:52:52 · answer #10 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋