I'm not important, and neither are you...

Biblioklept

…and it's kind of beautiful!

I've been listening to this song lately as it really helps with my anxiety but I have to be careful because when I listen if I'm feeling low, it makes me feel more low 😅

Particularly the lines:

♪ ♩ ♫ ♬

"I'm not important and neither are you, so let's do whatever we wanna do,

Bask in our cosmic insignificance, soak up this blip we're living in,

'Cause nothing matters anyway, isn't that great?" ♪ ♩ ♫ ♬

What does it make you think when you listen?!

https://youtu.be/7vV952XKJWg?feature=shared

Adrian_Scope

I'll try not to take offence @Biblioklept! 😂

It's quite a catchy song and I can see why it might help with anxiety. I must admit I sometimes appreciate the freedom of being insignificant but it can also be quite a daunting prospect.

Rosie_Scope

Thanks for sharing @Biblioklept! It's an interesting concept! Reminds me a bit of some songs by Tim Minchin that put logical or scientific spins on stuff that humans do.

It does make me think that in the grand scheme of things humans aren't at all important when you take all the science and history of the universe into account. So as he says, might as well try to have a good time while you're living in the 'blip'. And as Adrian mentioned, it feels freeing to not be significant sometimes, so I can see why it might help with anxiety.

Although if you'll allow me get all wishy-washy and philosophical here… I'd say that while we're insignificant in the grand sense, we're usually still significant in small ways to other people. While we're still here being human on this planet, our presence is important to other people through all our different connections, virtually or personally. So we're not special generally, but we're special to other people who know us, if that makes any sense? But then is that the human 'arrogance' he's talking about? Might be too much for my little brain to think about 😂

66Mustang

Ohh this is such an interesting topic for me!!

I used to take this attitude but to the extreme. I hope this doesn't make me sound like a bad person but I used to even think life and death wasn't a big deal… not in a really horrible way, I was always opposed to unjustified killing, but like if someone did something even reasonably bad, not just really awful, I didn't think life was at all sacred and didn't see anything wrong with just putting them down 😶

This attitude wasn't hypocritical or arrogant though and I'd apply the same logic to myself … I used to think my life was equally worthless and because I was suffering a lot, what's the big deal with ending that for myself??

I do still believe though that a lot of people have what I call "an overinflated view of their own importance to wider society" … I mean stuff like if someone is having a new baby and does a "baby shower" or "gender reveal" or whatever, I know it's lovely for the parents and family but does anyone else really care??

That said I've always thought people I liked, not just close family but friends as well, were super important to me and I would always happily give up my own life to make sure those people were OK … but it's just like, I don't have any false belief that like 99.999% of the world even knows who I am or cares and think maybe some people forget how insignificant they are to anyone except people they know?? 😂

A bit of a dark topic I agree but worth thinking about!!!!

Albus_Scope

Just had a quick listen and it's certainly got me grinning. I'd call that optimistic nihilism. 😊

I've always thought we're the center of our own universes, the main protagonist in our own life's stories, but only bit parts in other peoples' lives. Added another nice song to spread some more joy. ❤️