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.
I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...
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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