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  • To a few people, yes. In the grand scheme of things, not at all.
  • Not really to be honest.
  • yes i am important but sometimes i feel i am not. that is pretty sad.
  • To whom? I matter quite a lot to my family and friends. I do not harbor delusions of grandeur such that I believe the whole world would mourn the loss of me.
  • I would say that to at least 2 young'ens I am very important and matter more than pretty much anything else in their lives.
  • Im sure there is someone out there that thinks I matter.
  • Certainly at the moment a task i must perform is very important. If that makes me important then for the moment yes I am Maybe my 15 minutes of fame?
  • Yup of course! Everyone matters! No matter what race,gender,ethnicity etc etc you are. We all matter!
  • 'Everybody is somebody'. Yes, I do matter.
  • I don't really think so. But I want to. My goal in life is to leave a mark on this world, for what is the point of living if I will only be forgotten?
  • I am, I do
  • I'm important to my family and myself. And that's all that really matters. Who cares what anybody else thinks.
  • It depends on what context you mean. Am I important to my family? Sure! Am I important to my clients and employers? Kind of, but I am sure they could replace me if I met an untimely end. Am I important to the world? I try to be and would like to think I am... but truthfully, I'm negligable at best. Am I important to the universe? Certainly not.
  • I've affected a lot of lives, for better or for worse. So in a way I suppose I am important.
  • I would like to think so.
  • No and No
  • Yes and no. Each person is both "nobody special" and "the whole world". On the one hand, the world is a huge place, and there's sharp limits to the value of any single individual, regardless of how we measure that value. Even a great person like Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr., with all of their accomplishments and contributions... is still a drop in the bucket of history. On the other hand, every single person is the entire world. All of space and time converge HERE and NOW, expressing themselves as ME. Each moment is the culmination of all of history, and the start of an entirely new future. This means I am the center of the universe (and so are you, of course... that keeps it fair! :-) Being able to recognize this "center-of-the-universe" nature of being human leaves one with an awesome responsibility for that universe. Being able to recognize that I'm nobody special in the grand scheme of things allows for humility and a sense of perspective. Sacrificing either of these views causes problems: either we take too little responsibility for our lives and our world, or we fall into ego-centered nonsense.
  • In the grand scheme of things, no, I don't matter whatsoever
  • Yes and this applies to you, as well. We all are on earth for a reason. think this is not true? look around yourself. do you have a family? do you have an animal for a pet? do you pass homeless people on the street? point here is, everybody needs somebody. its human nature to be wanted and accepted. Everyday, i try to make a difference in someone's life. i know i am a mentor to fatherless children. their mothers tell me so. Being in law enforcement, gives me the opportunity to associate with the public on a grand scale. finding lost children, preventing assaults and homocides is what it is all about. Being in this profession, i see your question from a different viewpoint. i try to be important to the public i serve. sometimes, i am all they have. Stopping a crime in action, is also what i do. I know this really matters...the people tell me so.
  • I am important to family and friends and my fiance. I think I matter to them. I think I matter to God. Am I important to Him, I try to be. I suppose that is yet to be seen.
  • not to the world but to some people i probley am their world. i believe that each and everyone of us can make a small difference or impact on earth and if all those add up that's a big impact.
  • Ive saved the world a couple of times over - I do try to humble about it though.
  • not important at all
  • Not in the least, I will never make a difference, I an insignificant speck in this massive existence of ours.....but I'll live my life and die, and not make any change whatsoever
  • Everyone Matters
  • Yes i am important and really matter, to my wife and kids at least anyway.
  • Yes i am Important. I dont know how but i have that much confidence in me that i am important. Otherwise why would have god brought me here.
  • I am important to myself and my friends and family. If there is a person for whom I am not important then his opinion about me is not important to me too.((A bit complex I guess, but I am still learning))
  • No, I don't think so. I participate in nothing, therefore I am unimportant. And by being unimportant, I suppose I don't really matter, either. Ah well. Life's alright when you're a wallflower.
  • Yes I am and I have to know that I believe in me that's what count's
  • Yes i am VERY important because one day i'll shut down microsoft, or better yet...Sue Them and WIN!!!
  • To people who know me in the real world, maybe. Some more than others. Same thing with Answerbaggers. To the world in general, no.
  • I am important. Everybody is. However, people make the mistake of thinking that only they matter, thus they become very self-centered. An Indian philosopher once said that "you are grass. It's better to be humble". In a way, if you think that everyone is important, you will treat them in a way that shows that. SO it seems to me that the idea "of whether one is important or not" can lead to good and bad things.
  • In the great scheme of things I don't think people matter except to the people closest to them. When you are gone the sun will still rise in the east and set in the west. Life for others will go on.
  • Each and every person is an individual with a life. There isn't one person out there that doesn't matter; we all have potential. Now, how we use what we're given is our problem. We could use it to do good, we could use it to waste away. That's the individuals decision. We could mean everything, we are all worth a life.
  • God put us on earth for a reason, so we must be important!
  • To answer this from my perspective, everything is relative. I'm important to my friends and family, co-workers, fellow taxpayers and (hopefully) my cat. Important meaning my existence would be noticed if it were removed. But to the rest of the world...not so much I'm afraid.
  • I'm not sure who said it, but I am reminded of this quote. "To the world I am one person, but to one person I am the world."
  • No and No. You know the stuff they mix raw hamburger with...Well I'm the filler.Just to make things look bigger.
  • I'm important to myself, and I matter to myself, but other than that, no and no : P I'm not really anyone important - nor do I want to be; "I don't want to have it all, I just want to have enough" ; )
  • Yes, to myself, my loved ones and most of all to God.
  • To myself and some loved ones. In the grand scheme of things....ashes to ashes - dust to dust. From the earth return to the earth. Do all your meaningful, important things now - on earth. When it is over...it won't matter much to you, but you just may have touched one or three people and that will be a lasting legacy to behold.
  • Everyone is important in their own or they won't be here!!!!!!!
  • God yes!
  • Only to me
  • Yes, I am. To God, to my family and to friends.
  • If I'm important at all on a more individualistic level aside from the natural role we all have to play within the natural cycle of the Earth and its evolution as decreed by science, then I'm only as such for those who pretend to care for or about me, but whom in reality use me as a tool by taking advantage of my weaknesses to further whatever personal motives they have. I'm about as important as a garbage bag is in order to carry away the garbage.
  • No. Well, to about three or four people I sort of am/do, but otherwise -- no.
  • i am important... if im gone, whos gonna clean up the toilet..? who will have to cook the breakfast...haha... as a social being we all matter... just like King Mufasa said... we all belong to the circle of life... lol! am i making any sense?

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