Well I was in Psych class today we were talking about Humanistic theory (or something like that...). Well, one of the interesting things the prof brought up was that there was a survey taken at some time or another and it asked the taker if he/she felt important/special. Aparently the majority said yes.

Maybe it's just me, but I just sort of rofl'd at that statement and sat there in amusment. But then it struck me as to why I found this amusing. I looked at if from a worldly perspective. In other words, I didn't see why anyone would feel important in a world full of billions of other people.

In that perspective I'd have to say that one person holds little value. So let's take a closer look. One is much more important at a smaller scale. If I died right now and looked at it from just my family, everyone would be sad. That's because I was important to most of my family. So my death would seem significant. Go out a bit further to the town i live in. If I died there would be some upsetness, but most people would be like, "sucks for that kid" and shrug it off. Go out further to the state that I live and and even fewer people would care about my death, making my death even less significant. The we go further out and I don't need to explain further, I think you catch my drift...

So my guess it that people felt important because they were looking about it from a smaller perspective, in which case yes, most people are important.

Then again, like I said before, I tend to look at things in the big picture. So unless you're curing AIDS, GTFO!