Being from a extremely small town, of about 2000 people, does it make me insignificant to the rest of the world, because I don't come from the big city that everyone wants to move to?
2007-06-22 18:39:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
Everyone is insignificant unless their someone.
Makes no sense, huh? Well, think about it in these terms. To folks in your neighborhood, you are already likely to be known. Maybe you're someone who can be trusted easily, maybe your willing to help your neighbors, maybe your the person who yells and screams about the noise and folks coming onto your property. Doesn't matter because your neighbors may know you, or they at least know you exsist.
But compared with the size town you live in, your neighboorhood is terribly small. A town can be an entire community, or it can be made up of a few communities. So it's possible for you to be a someone within your community and still be obscure within the rest of the town.
As things get larger, your signifigance may diminish. You could be known in your town as the best person to ask advice or help from, but folks in your county may be unlikely to have heard of you. Be famous as a reporter for a newspaper in your county, but the rest of the state is unlikely to have heard of you. And so it goes.
In short, unless your a well known name, the world at large would be less likely to care that you exsist. So you may be insignificant in the long run of things, but that doesn't mean you are totally insignificant. Nor does it mean that you need remain so. Famous people are born in small towns just like the rest of us.
2007-06-22 19:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow you come from a Big Town..I lived in "Pittsville" Wisconsin Population 612... Belive me it lived up to it's name. Then we moved to an even smaller town Called Vedum, Wis. even though it doesn't seem to really be a town at all, only a church, a one room schoolhouse & a general store in the middle of the woods.
2007-06-23 01:45:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The only thing I worry about is since you have had limited experiences as far as what else is "out there" that you would not have an open mind about others. No one is insignificant. We all have the possibility of value.
2007-06-23 07:33:03 · answer #3 · answered by beenthere 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋