Our Importance is Self Created !
Have you ever thought of this possibility that whatever we all think is importance is only at the level of our own tribe , family , race or nation .
Does it matter to a hungry lion to be selective in choosing some animal or human to consume ?
Will a hungry lion leave the ruler of the nation or tribe and go for the common person ?
Of course , it sounds crazy to have such thoughts .
For a hungry lion , it just wants to eat !
Be it a poor deer , a wildebeest or some poor human at the wrong place at the wrong time .
Does it matter who ?
You may be a king of some nation on a tour or a poor cowherd from the local tribes .
To a lion it simply does not matter .
There goes our self importance .
Let's go smaller and see what happens .
To a mosquito , it is the same story.
A female mosquito just needs blood from any human . It is not selective who that person may be .
Let's go even smaller and see how important we are .
A bacteria or a virus too is not selective of the person it chooses.
Even at the level of humans , our importance is relative !
My mother is really very important to me . Do you feel the same sense of importance if you knew her as a woman living in your neighbourhood ? Most unlikely .
So , if we go by this kind of reasoning , we soon can come to the conclusion that all importance is self created.
Your religion is important to you . Your nation is important to you .
My this or that is important to me . That too goes on changing from time to time .
Nothing is really important permanently .
Time and place will and can change that always .
Some event or person is very important to a certain group of people and not important to others .
Eventually all importance is relative in time and place.
We sometimes over grandiose this self importance .
Ethno-centric is a word where we think and feel we are the centre of the Universe .
People , religions and nations all have this tendency towards self importance .
It is a human trait .
Nothing more and nothing less !
Will end for today. Take care.
Amar.
For a hungry lion , it just wants to eat !
Be it a poor deer , a wildebeest or some poor human at the wrong place at the wrong time .
Does it matter who ?
You may be a king of some nation on a tour or a poor cowherd from the local tribes .
To a lion it simply does not matter .
There goes our self importance .
Let's go smaller and see what happens .
To a mosquito , it is the same story.
A female mosquito just needs blood from any human . It is not selective who that person may be .
Let's go even smaller and see how important we are .
A bacteria or a virus too is not selective of the person it chooses.
Even at the level of humans , our importance is relative !
My mother is really very important to me . Do you feel the same sense of importance if you knew her as a woman living in your neighbourhood ? Most unlikely .
So , if we go by this kind of reasoning , we soon can come to the conclusion that all importance is self created.
Your religion is important to you . Your nation is important to you .
My this or that is important to me . That too goes on changing from time to time .
Nothing is really important permanently .
Time and place will and can change that always .
Some event or person is very important to a certain group of people and not important to others .
Eventually all importance is relative in time and place.
We sometimes over grandiose this self importance .
Ethno-centric is a word where we think and feel we are the centre of the Universe .
It is a human trait .
Nothing more and nothing less !
Will end for today. Take care.
Amar.
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