Everything is Important, Nothing is Important
by asi
WARNING: if you do not wish to read completely incoherent and insignificant quasi philosophical rambling you should turn your head NOW.
Few weeks back, and unfortunately not for he first time I stared at 1467 items on my RSS reader and with trembling hand clicked the ‘mark as read’ button. The new(ish) reality of being a father and starting on a new uber-manic job at hyper, left me me with far less time than I had before to read the blogs I’ve collected over the years.
Deleting all those posts with one click as well as occasional 24-72 hours breaks from Twitter (and life goes on believe it or not…) made me think that not only are we still nowhere near solving the problems of information overload, finding the important signal in the sea of noise etc but also, I cannot escape this (fortunately rare) depressing thought that everything is important and therefore nothing is important(?).
Looking at this for example, makes me both very happy but also a bit depressed
I really don’t mean to be quasi-existential here but when every ephemeral act is stored, when we can live without the things that usually seem very important to us, when we have the option of reaching a million people, and the reality of reaching no one….
So maybe Gandhi was right when he said “Almost everything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you DO IT”. (whatever the f**k he meant by that)”
‘naff said.
I think it’s important to remember Asi that nothing you do is insignificant.
And think of all that you ‘do’ and you realise that it is insignificant compared to what you do for those you love.
I miss you in the office. I hope you are well my friend.
I like this post a lot.
‘sall.
i guess Gandhi was right hey?
cheers Greg, thanks Ben
In phase with you my friend… been there and still am from time to time. Here is one of my last Tweets just before I read your post.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein
Time matters… and does not matter at the same time.
Luc my friend! what a great surprise
fine words indeed….
Nothing matters to me it seems and nothing is important. Those who seem to genuinely enjoy life tell us to find out what we want, what is important to us, and go after it. I don’t want anything and nothing is important, so what am I to do?
Ace, I have the same. I had a very bad period before I met the best girl in the world. She said to me: “Nothing is important, keep that in mind”. So, I did, with a fabulous result, I was happy all the time, I quitted all bad things, I grew up.
Now I’m falling back in sadness and I don’t want to do anything, because I can’t see that girl anymore and she don’t talk to me anymore. I can’t enjoy anything anymore, only music and smoking. What am I to do?
-I love that girl-
Draugai Hi (and everyone)
I know exactly where you are coming from, I’ve been there. But it has taken me years to realise that nothing is important. Importance is something that we are TRAINED to believe in. I want a car, I need a girl/boy friend, success status etc. If we did not believe these arbitary things we would feel that life had no meaning. But importance does not exist ‘out there’ it is only in our socially trained minds. Even self importance is made up to make us feel , well important. It’s a trick which everyone falls for to give there life meaning. But it is a false meaning. The Matrix does exist. Don’t look for importance in rubbish, look at what you still think is important and equire as to whether that importance is not just made up by you. Even music, a bunch of sounds which make people behave with a trained response they find pleasurable. Success? look how clever people think I am! What a load of rubbish we think. The way out of the matrix (or tree of knowledge as they used to call it) is not by dumping false importance on things it is to realise that nothing is important. The emptional problems you are experiencing are not due to loss of importance in some things, it is due to the importance you still place on arbitary things.
You were lucky to meet that girl at all (most people never will) don’t feel bad that she went just be glad that she came to you at all.