Important things?

Question

I read somewhere "How all of a sudden a stranger has become so important in my life". I am assuming, it was written by someone madly in love or something.. :) But this got me thinking.. how important are 'important things' in our life? Who gives them this kind of importance? I mean, are they even worth it? What place do they hold in our life, that they become so irreplaceable?

Answer 1

We value certain things that makes it important to us. We give them importance because they have been part of our lives. Some have mould us to be a better person. We tend to appreciate things and giving them importance makes us complete. We see them as an inspiration and gives us pleasures. It brings happiness to us that's why we ought to look for it and learn to live with it. We even think that our life is not complete without these things. They become a part of our system. We live with them day to day. So much so it turn to be an obsession sometimes. Therefore all the happiness and pleasure it gives make these things irreplaceable.

Thanks for asking. Have a great day!

Answer 2

Seems like important things are all relative. To the starving person in Sudan, do you think he cares about the latest safety ratings in SUVs, or the next big career move up the corporate ladder? It's more important for me to have a hamburger with real people than with stuffy snobby rich people who order the best steak and wine. To a woman, as the saying goes, diamonds are a girl's best friend. But a dog is a man's best friend, and even the dog finds that it's important for him to have a master and be a part of a social order.

Answer 3

Actually, Martin Bueber wrote a fascinating book entitled "I and Thou" which discusses this topic at great length. His conclusion, which my humble opinion confirms is that relationships are important, things are not. Furthermore, when we relate to another person as if they were a "thing" rather than a person, it is a sure sign we are on the wrong path. We use things. We relate to other people. When we use other people, we are treating them like "things". I suspect strangers can become important in our lives without being used. Relationships with other individuals are the only important elements of our lives, except for right relationship with God

Answer 4

Nietzsche believes that the source of all values are within yourself. I believe that the important things has some kind of division: the ones that your body cant live without it; the ones that your soul understand the world; the ones that your morals behave. You need the tree of them to be alive and happy, the trouble is when those tree fight each other. And you know that when you erase one of them, something very important is going to be out of your life. And that hearts.

You know the funy thing is that you wont the change, but you are afraid of it. And that balance is not always in your hand.

Answer 5

I don't think you can discuss it in terms of "our" life. Important things are important to individual people. They may differ tremendously. Only you can give them importance. A poor person would consider a great job with a great pay extremely important. A rich person may consider more time with his family extremely important. A writer getting his first book published.... an Olympic contestant his first Gold Medal... and so on. They are important if we set them as our goals and work to achieve them. Are they (meaning goals in general) important? Yes, of course. Life is movement forward. Stagnation is death.

Answer 6

Good question.

The problem is that the important things that we have today in our life are wrong things that we are putting importance too.

People take care of their car more than what they should take care of themselves and their near and dear ones.

We should be more value based, our importance should be of values in our life rather than a person or things. That is where all the problem arises.

A person who is value based never has such problems cause he only worships his values and not things and persons.

Try it out and I am sure there will be more happiness in our lives.

Answer 7

a great book to read whos major theme is this is "The Stranger" by Albert Camus. It's in French but you can buy the translated version at Barnes & Noble. The main character, Meursault, does not seem to have emotion. He has sex with a woman and when she asks if he loves her he says "That doesnt really matter, but i dont think so" and when his boss offers hims a promotion, his reaction is "it doesnt really matter either way, it wont change anything". its a really interesting story and im sure im not doing it justice, but it addresses your question exactly.

Answer 8

We know the difference of things and people, so I assume you are speaking of inanimate objects, 'things'. History is memory and all our understanding for the purpose for things is in our memory. For memories sustenance things provide that and for all our ideals, different they may be. The most persistent for their own existence, like the sun or moon or stars, are perhaps the most wisely chosen for such sustenance, but they are not, for most, peculiar enough to remind us of those peculiar times that forge our individual and universal destinies.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

important things are impartial in our life