that's two questions! can i choose which i prefer to answer?
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Life is only important to those who are truly alive. The unimaginative, uninformed, unaware and unfriendly are unalive in every aspect meaningful life. For life to flourish it requires compassion for oneself and others. For those who's joy has been obliterated by the un loving purveyors of ignorance, to be alive is to have hope.
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Yea, n n0.
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Life plants and other matter that keep our ecosystem balanced so that we and other creatures on this planet can exist are indeed important. However, I believe that as far as humans are concerned , its not just life that is important, but the QUALITY of life. Is life to be honored if you are brain-dead?-don't think so, what if you were born with developmental disorders so severe that you hardly even recognize that you're alive-don't think so. I'm a survivalist, a realist, and I firmly believe that not every single form of life is to be valued just for the sake of breathing!
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Yes.
Life is the ability for matter to recreate copies of itself. It has led to our ability to observe the rest of the natural world and wonder as to its origins. Is it important? Yes. Why? Because without it, this conversation wouldn't exist.
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My life is important to me because it's mine and it's my only frame of reference. But, in general, I believe life is "important" only because it's part of a greater system. I do not hold that human life is sacred or of greater value than any other form of existence. Life is a biological process...plant life, human life, animal life...all has a genesis, a span, and an end. Part of the life cycle is death and decay. Lots of seeds don't even germinate, many others are eliminated shortly after germinating...due to a heavy frost or selective thinning. Same goes for critters and humans. We're just biologicals. We humans think very highly of ourselves, but I view humans as the worst sort of parasite. We foul our own "nest", attack and kill for pleasure or power, consumer in excess, and generally make a mess of things. We're not very nice as a species and I think Mother Nature might be better off by ridding the planet of us. We're no better the fleas on dog...indeed, we're far worse. I have trouble seeing "humans" as being beneficial in the great system. Yes, we do have our bright moments, but our presence has brought decline to the planet, not benefit.
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Ridiculously easy to answer: YES. The opportunity to make a difference
in the lives of other beings, sentient or otherwise. The chance to
gently steward the earth, the chance to leave this place even slightly
better.
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importance seems to be a value judgement.
so, you are asking life to judge life.
life is.
isness is.
importance is a mind-construct.
importance is not important.
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It's only important if you're living it with the intention of DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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Life is as important as we make it. Connecting with others, building community, love ~ these are the things that make life worthwhile. Besides, we might as well enjoy it; we'll be dead a long time!
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of course it is! if it isn't important, I won't be alive. and if I'm alive then I value mine and I shouldn't think anyone or anything else that has life be any different!
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Is it important? I guess so, otherwise I wouldn't be here. WHY is it important? That's been pondered since the beginning of consciousness, and basically, it's anyone's guess.
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depends on what you mean by 'life' and 'important'. is it important to live on earth? no. is it important that you are living on earth? are you living? is it importantly? life, as we've 'come to know it', in the end, may never have meant anything at all. how's that for a good day!
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Yes. Because.
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It's important to the lives you've touched and the ones you intend to touch along your journey.
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Life is beyond important it just is: it exists. We as humans can make some thing mean more then it is or less then it is to ourselves, but life was here before our own life and it will be here after we pass into death and back in to the cycle of energetic creation. Life itself does not think life is important. It is here now until it isn't. It is pure of judgement.
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Not in and of itself. I don't believe in the reincarnation idea that we're here to learn something every go round. Nor do I believe in the idea of heaven and hell. So it doesn't seem like there's much point to life. And if there's no point that makes life pretty meaningless.
However, I say 'not in and of itself' because the above doesn't mean that we should just give up on our lives; I say make the most of it. And humans seem really good at attaching a meaning to things that don't have one so we can pretend if that makes us feel better about hanging around.
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Wow. Quite a week for this question. I don't know how I would've answered it prior to Thursday, which is when I found out about the sudden and unexpected death of the husband of a friend. Well, I know I would've said that yes, life is important. And I know I would've had the following reason: to experience the joy and happiness, along with the sorrow and pain. Without the latter, would we know how to enjoy the former? I don't think so.
Now I would add that I think life is important to those who love us, and even to complete strangers. We all affect each other in so many different ways, ways that we may never even know. Someone pays your toll when crossing the bridge, which leads you to do something kind for someone else later in the day, and so on and so forth. Without that first gift, the others would not follow. So, the life of that first person made a difference in the lives of others they didn't even know. Just think of what you can do for someone you DO know, much less a stranger on the street? How can your life make a positive difference in someone else's life? It's a ripple effect. And it all comes back to you.
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Life for its own sake is not particularly important. What makes it important is what we do while we're here; who we love, what we do. how we improve life for those around us and improve ourselves in the process.
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I think it's important to the living, but mainly because of the fear of the alternative.
In the big, big, huge picture of things, I'm honestly not sure if it is important. If there were no life, the world would probably not be better or worse, just very, very different.
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Otherwise I would have never heard "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys.
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Yes.
For beauty.
For love.
For art.
For one another.
For good days.
For bad days when you see someone or something that makes you smile.
For meaning.
For the undercurrent.
For the touch when everything goes away.
And what we can't touch but feel
For those sometimes undefinable moments ...
For so many reasons...
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Yes. Not sure yet.
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And mine...
I don't think of my life as being important. It is just a life. And life in and of itself is neither important nor unimportant.
On Wednesday night I was walking home and saw an ambulance in front of the home of a friend. Her husband was being carried away on a stretcher, one paramedic pumping his chest while the other two lifted him into the ambulance.
He didn't make it. His life now seems very important.
the dead's features are writ large in a heart
whose plane and distance tear apart
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