Some people like to be knowledgable. Some to be rich. Some to be content while some are still looking. A lot of people also crave fame, power and above all the feeling of being important. Important to the circle of individuals that they affect or hover in, the diameter of that circle being in direct proportion to their ambition, ego or zest.
Mostly it is believed that this attempt to have a goal - any goal of any kind is to satiate some glandular activity in the cerebllum which creates the feeling of happiness.
So the secret sauce as many a guru, disciple or truant will tell you is to find your own path to salvation therefore of being important and ultimately happy.
Now this importance phenomenon is evident in everyday life from the way we prioritize things or try to. Why are you buying that iphone now? Well its important to me so that I can do some important things with it including learning how to make Tofu infused Bok Choy as I am standing at the stove and so on.
Teach kids every day - is that important Johnny? Do this then that or do that not this. Its everywhere.
I for one get the suscpicion that all of this important prioritizing is going to get us in the end. After all we seem to decide based on natural order of selection and have come to survive as a species and feel all important ourselves.
Multi tasking has come to be fashionable as an extension of too many important things cluttering our important brain.
Now that may be but is it truly far fetched that the whole notion of hanging out with important people on the planet is not that important?
To make a fine point I think the importance of importance is an epidemic of epidemic proportions.
Our first foray into Central America. That elongated isthmus that forms the geographic boundary between two vast continents of North and South America. Specifically landing for NYE 2026 in San Jose, Costa Rica. Capital city for this region that does not have its own army, instead relying on its big bro the Estados Unidos to the north is a metropolis of approx. 500K people. Largely wilderness and with both a Pacific and Carribean/Atlantic coast the country is rich in bio diversity. In Spanish it means the rich coast so named by Columbus landing in early 16th century and being mesmerized by the local tribes sporting gold jewelry. Our stay included visiting the foothills of a large strato volcano called Arenal and enjoying the naturally heated thermal baths for a while. Lunching amidst lush forest and watching indigenous species of avian noise makers fly overhead. Toucans, some sort of pea hens, multiple song bird species completed the spectacle. Iguanas and a lonel...
This would qualify as a 'Wilde' post if only you changed the title to The importance of being important. In the category of 'Earnest', I mean.
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