Does it bother you that ultimately each of us is insignificant?

[Daystavro]

Sometimes, when I go out to the street and I see all the people I feel really insignificant.
There are just so many people.
I feel like a drop in the ocean.
And me ctb will have no effect on the world.
People ctb all the time and it doesn't affect any of us.
The same will be when I ctb.
Thr world will go on like nothing happened.

 

[Sickofit]

I feel the same sometimes, but you givern yourself and cant control no one else. For each one of us life revolves around our individual selves. Cant do anythong about as depressing as it is knowing we are just a drop in an ocean.

 

[lv-gras]

find it comforting

 

[Sickofit]

find it comforting

Whys that?

 

[1234dave]

its a good thing

 

[Delia]

Nah fam I just find it to be one more reason why I can ctb in peace

 

[Jon]

The fact that we are so insignificant, so much so that mind can't fully comprehend it, is of great comfort. It's also great knowing that we nothing but flesh and bones, pretty much the same material that all animals are made up of. If you count how many billions of generations come and past before us, before we were even Homo sapiens, or how tiny we are when compared to the almost infinite universe, makes our pains and suffering not just bearable, but trivial.

Marcus Aurelius, a Roman Empeor in his Meditations speaks a lot about this, and constantly writes about it, it was of great comfort to him as it is to us, two millennia down the line.

 

[1234dave]

The fact that we are so insignificant, so much so that mind can't fully comprehend it, is of great comfort. It's also great knowing that we nothing but flesh and bones, pretty much the same material that all animals are made up of. If you count how many billions of generations come and past before us, before we were even Homo sapiens, or how tiny we are when compared to the almost infinite universe, makes our pains and suffering not just bearable, but trivial.

Marcus Aurelius, a Roman Empeor in his Meditations speaks a lot about this, and constantly writes about it, it was of great comfort to him as it is to us, two millennia down the line.

love this

 

[WaitingForTheBus]

7 Billion people mate. We are all insignificant, except to those that love us. To care for every single person that suffers misfortune, would be a significant burden for anyone.

Besides, we become desensitized to death over time. Everyday, we hear of innocent people dying of starvation or in war torn countries or school massacres. After a while, it just doesn't register anymore.

Reality is, besides a handful of people, no one will really care when I, you or anyone else decides to ctb. Life goes on for everyone else.

 

[Jai]

No one really cares mate were all just producers in a dream of our lives spinning around on a rock in an infinite universe

 

[bigj75]

7 Billion people mate. We are all insignificant, except to those that love us. To care for every single person that suffers misfortune, would be a significant burden for anyone.

Besides, we become desensitized to death over time. Everyday, we hear of innocent people dying of starvation or in war torn countries or school massacres. After a while, it just doesn't register anymore.

Reality is, besides a handful of people, no one will really care when I, you or anyone else decides to ctb. Life goes on for everyone else.

as it should in my opinion. It would be hard for people to progress in their life if they were constantly mourning everyone's death. Death is apart of life. More people have died than the amount of people living on the planet right now. It actually surprises me how death effects people as much as it does these days.

 

[worldexploder]

We got 7 billion of us buddy. Last year alone, 70 million people died. That is more than WW2 took in 6 years. Each and every one of us is 1 out of 7 billion. Does it bother me that I am insignificant? No. Does it brother me that sentient life suffers? Yes.

 

[Donewith_]

A correction to the question. None of the people are insignificant firstly to ask this. Every person is unique. A lot of good things/incidents have happened since ages (like a sick person getting well again, or some person might have been spared from some trauma)..Consider imagining list of all the good things that have happened since the existence of life. It's huge.. but, those incidents get no less value just because they are huge in no. Everything will have its own value. If a person dies, none can replace his place, some other person might be able to talk , think or do things similar to him,..But not exactly the same.As they say about 'Butterfly effect', I think every small thing shoes some other or the other effect.. we are able to perceive only some.
But, I can understand this I think. It appears to us like we don't show a slight impact on the world. 'Cause I think our perception is limited. We can be used as the synonym of 'limited'. Everything happens right here but still we are unable to see, perceive. For eg,. A parent might not be able to observe when their kid behaves aggressively (or differently)..But some random person can understand it. They are just blinded by their 'parental love'. In this case too.. we are just unable to see I think.
Oops.. It's a bit long;)

 

[Dani Paradox]

When you've seen beyond yourself
Then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there
And the time will come, when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you

 

[Sundayafternoon]

Not the least. It makes me feel better.

 

[Maravillosa]

It does bother me somewhat that even if I do become a successful published novelist and have biographies written about me after I die, my life and death will not matter to the vast majority of humanity.

However, the possible prospect of having my individual consciousness merged with that of God after I die is a consolation to me. It would be extremely nice to experience the joys of Heaven, but it is hard for me to imagine that they would go on for all eternity. After a few eons, I think that each human soul would have been gently cleansed away of its sins and faults and able to experience the joys of Heaven: after that, their individual consciousnesses would become part of God. The last thing an individual soul would experience is perfect bliss, perfect joy: a trillion trillion times better than the best possible orgasm. Of course, this is not part of Catholic theology, but it is soothing for me to think that way nevertheless.

 

[creationisdeath]

It does. It adds to the meaninglessness.

What helps reduce this aspect of suffering for me is that even all of known history is tiny and insignificant. Not even Hitler will be remembered in a few thousand years. Even all of mankind's existence is nothing compared to the millions and billions of years before us. At least this is true for all of us, whether we are poor and destitute or a god-emperor/celebrity (what's the difference nowadays?).

I don't believe in the "you are unique" doctrine. I know there are countless copies of myself out there. It's a mathematical necessity with BILLIONS of people. There are only so many possible outcomes.

"You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world."

 

[bigj75]

I think people underestimate the impact they have on people. In your entire life you meet up to 3,000-4,000 people i believe (some you will have close relationship with). That phrase you become who you surround yourself around has quite a bit of truth to it. Each person you meet you either impact them negatively, neutrally, or positively in some way. Then that person you meet meets someone else, so on and do fourth.

For example: someone is a bad person and they go out of there way to hurt someone then that someone goes home to their family and what that bad person did pushed that someone over the edge after they've tried really hard to bottle up the stress and stuff of everyday life for years. Then they burst and in a fit of distress yell at their children who were about to tell them something important that could have been life changing but they got scared and went back to their room. Then those children are negatively influenced. Then when they go back to school and see their friends they are in a depressed mood because of what happened earlier and that influences the friends around them. Then they go to basketball practice afterwards in the same upset mood and it effects their practice and concentration. Etc.

People dont understand the world is cycle. How you act, treat others, etc all matter no matter how much yall think it doesn't. Yes i know in say 5,000 years the earth will probably be gone but what about now? Just because it wont last doesn't mean uneccssary suffering that can be prevented right now doesn't matter .

 

[nuclearsnake]

I find it very comforting. Sometimes when I'm really down in the dumps I like thinking about how meaningless we are in the grand scheme of things. It's nice to know that there's so much more than my own worries out there and that ultimately the things that bring me down do not really matter. I'll be dead and the people I wish I was will be too one day. The universe appears to have an expiration date also so even people who really did have an major influence will be forgotten one day. I like being insignificant the way I am because that means everyone else is as well.

And it reminds that human consciousness is a bit of a wonder in itself and that in a way it's an incredible thing that we can hate our lives and our suffering the way we do and chose to end it if we want.

 

[TheGoodGuy]

Yup all the time especially when I watch videos or documentaries about the universe and they zoom out from Earth and then further out where you see the Milky Way galaxy it really but things in perspective about how insignificant everything is if I died it wouldn´t matter at all, if my whole country got nuked it wouldn´t matter, if the whole planet blew up it wouldn´t matter even if the whole Milky Way Galaxy (our galaxy) somehow blew up or imploded it wouldn´t even make a dent in the whole universe we are but a grain of sand in a whole desert this way of thinking is called Nihilism it is where you see everything as insignican´t because nothing really matters others like a childhood friend I know sees it as a great opportunity to get the best out of life since it´s so "amazing" how we as an individual came to be alive with a consciousness because the chance of that happening is so small e.g. just if another sperm made it too the egg first I wouldn´t have existed. This kind of positivity about the chance of life in such a big universe of posibilities is called optimistic nihilism.

But yeah ultimately I am so insignicant we all are, when we hear about people dying like in a mass shooting it really doesn´t matter because if we zoom out and look from space it´s still this peaceful blue planet.


This video put my words into perspective, I have watched this video a lot.

 

[Guess]

We are all insignificant in a way to every single person. First of all, we are 1 in 7 billion people. Some of us are significant to our loved ones but it ends there. If you ctb, than we remain a memory only. An icon used to teach awareness even though no one at all even knew who we are. I think that even our loved ones do not find us significant. They all move on and it's a good thing sometimes because then you can slip into the darkness and no one will know. But other times it hurts to know that.

 

[Justanotherconsumer]

Yes it does bother me a bit, we are not running the show. It's not fun being the background scenery and at the end being taken down and thrown away ,never knowing why, never a thank you for participating in a play, and the audience behind smoked glass.

 

[Deivis]

I've done it once. Blocked everyone on social media, been rejecting all voicemail, calls, emails.
People started to ask around. And I let the rumor go that I'm missing and probably dead.
Guess what?
Aside from initial gossip, within 2 weeks nobody ever bothered to remember.

 

[Trashcan]

It does not. It brings relief. I'll be forgotten within the next 100 years. After I die, life will move on and it'll be like I never existed. Which is exactly what I want.