Do you matter?

[Kinney]

Hey again. I dont know if this was already done by somebody else but I didnt get a chance to get a look at it so here it is. Do you matter? That is one of the questions I have all the time in my head since I heard it from a teacher two years ago. I would say that the answer is in between, or maybe not. Most of people freak out when people say no but I'm against it, why? Well, if I if i hadn't being born everything would probably be the same wouldnt it?

So this question is kind of tricky, I thought about it for days and my opinion is right there ^^^.

Do YOU matter? Why or why not.

[hellbred]

I think people matter to other people that are effected by them. We matter to our parents, and our husbands and wives and girlfriends and boyfriends, and bosses and coworkers -- but overall, on a worldy-scale I suppose I can't say I matter a whole lot. I haven't contributed on a wordly scale enough that history itself would be different if I hadn't have been born.

I'm not Eienstein or, but I like to think I matter

Then again, I guess you're point is also Eienstein didn't really matter either, since eventually somebody would have come up with his theories and eventions? If this were the case, and specific people would not have been born -- I doubt civilization would be how it is today.

[Chez Daja]

Me? ME...? Oh god, somebody noticed me! I matter! w00t!



Well. I don't matter a lot. I was home-taught as a young child, so meh. I never had any friends at school that would miss me. In fact, I doubt anyone gave a shit when I walked out of school anyway, haha. I remember a few weeks after leaving, seeing my friend Annabel. It was fun. And on the way out, I saw Keiran, a guy I used to hang out with sometimes. It was kinda sad, because I missed the people I hung with. But then again, it was good because I wasn't being bullied anymore. ^_^

I don't think I matter all that much, or am of any great importance to anybody, really. I have masses of friends online, but it's like... I talk to them everyday, yes, they'd notice if I was to disappear, but I think they'd get over it fairly quickly.

I guess I matter a little to my boyfriend. If we didn't matter to each other, there wouldn't be much point in us being together, and we'd probably not have been together for so long. But again, I think he'd get over it pretty quickly. I think he's good at dealing with stuff, and I believe he'd cope pretty well.

I matter to my family, because I'm the one that holds us all together. I don't know why I do, but I do. I guess I love the horrible bastards, eh? My little brother... god, I hate that guy, but I adore him as well. I love him in the way I would love a best friend, a brother and a son. We tell each other everything, and I think if I was to die or disappear, he'd be devastated. My sister would probably be pretty upset as well. My dad and mom would be torn apart. Meh. Now that I think about it, my family hate each other, but we really do love each other a lot more. I guess that overcomes everything in the end.

Though, if I'd never been born, I guess nobody would notice. I haven't made that much of an impact of the world, so I can't say I've done anything great to grant me worthiness of life above somebody else. I think in order for me to be truely worthy of life, I have to do more things to help people.

And I don't mean visiting dying people and helping suicidal kids out, like I do anyway. I solve peoples' problems, so to some people, yes, I matter a great deal because I'm able to take on other peoples' stress since I've been stretched and had a lot of emotional pain in the past from certain events.

All in all... do I matter to the world? No, I don't. Not really.

Do I matter to my family, friends and my boyfriend? Yeah. I guess I do.

Well that isnt a tricky question IMO.
If you think like me then you would think that you matter.

Well i like think that i matter because i believe in choices. If you make a certain choice then your life will change in a certain way but if you chose the other choice then it will change in the opposite direction.

Well what i am trying to say is if i wasnt born or if i was to die or cease to exist then the good things in my family's life might have been bad things. or it could have the other effect of if my family i havnt a really bad life then my birth could have brought them just and happiness so there life has changed for the best.

Well what i am trying to say it that i think that i matter and i am a good choice that my Parents made in there life inorder for me to have had the great things in my life that i have now.

Thanx for listening and have a great day.

[Ashley271490]

I matter because if i didn't matter, my boyfriend wouldn't like me. If I didn't matter, my parents wouldn't care about me. Everyone in this worlds matters, no matter how stupid or gay they r.

I think everone matters in their own particular way, but I don't think everyone deserves to matter. For example, I don't think people like paedophiles, homophobes, racists etc. deserve to matter to anyone. Yet they do, because they effect people's lives.

I think everyone has the oppertunity to make a difference in the world, but it won't just happen.

We are all part of a balance. Without certain individuals the world would simply not be. A balance must always be maintained. We all matter, no matter what path we take in our lives.

[Angantyr]

At this point in time, I don't think I really matter. If I died, sure people would be sad and all but they would move on. This is at my point in time, but I could eventually lead down a victorious path and become something great, or I could end up dead in a ditch. I don't know to be honest

[Nekoness]

I do matter.
But it affects only those who care for me, like my family and my friends. To any person from America or China for example I don't matter, they don't know me personally, I'm only an empty sound for them.

You matter only to people who know YOU, for the rest you are another on the street whose face they'll forget a second after seeing it.

[Lost Sol]

I don't really think that it's you that matters, more like, what you choose to do. People care about you, I'm sure that makes you matter, to someone else anyways. What you do, effects people or the enviornment around you, whether you know this or not. But if you think you matter, then that's all a matter of opinion on how one thinks about themselves or others.

[Crazy Chocobo]

Well I believe that all of us matter. We matter to those in our lives who care about us. Probably everyone has someone who cares about them dearly, so we do matter to certain people. We are important to those around us; relatives and friends.

To those people who don't know you, chances are that you don't matter to them because they have no idea you exist. I guess we were all created for a reason so I do actually believe all of us matter to some people!

Great topic by the way!

[Livana]

I don't matter to myself, but I think I matter to my friends and family. I care more about other people to look after myself, I'd jump in front of a bullet for any one of my true friends regardless of the consequenses. I kicked a knife out of a mans had who tried to knife one of my best friends and nearly got stabbed in the process, but I didn't really care, I like to protect everyone but me. =/

[Leroy]

I feel like I'm worthless sometimes, but then I remember how much I make my friends and people I care about, smile. Seeing them happy is the only thing that keeps me feeling important, so I continue to fill their lives with joy. Can't say the same about my life though. At home, I get no appreciation. My parents have given up on me for some reason, and I don't really have any other relatives. Everyone matters to someone, if you didn't you would fail to exist. I'm not saying you'll disappear into thin air. I guess you'd just be one big, ol' void.

[Yuki-onna]

You can bet your bonnet I matter. If I weren't around to feed my cat, she'd kill me.
That's respect.

But, if I made no difference to anyone's lives and had absolutely no impact on anything anywhere, I'd probably create a vortex (or several vortexii) and the world would end.
Even if I were a trashmaster I'd still matter.

Just saying.

[Lost Sol]

Jet, I can relate to how you feel, except the parent not caring part. The only thing is, I feel like I'm nothing compared to what some people did in the past. Some achieved great things, I won't bother to name them. But I feel if I just live out my life, y'know, the average way (school, growing up, getting a job, perhaps a family) I'd feel as though I accomplished nothing. Sure, I may have made it through college or whatever, but did I do anything that affected the world? Or maybe even a state or country? I feel if I don't do anything beneficial to the world, I didn't do anything to make my life meaningful. If I'm going to have a purpose, I want it to be one helluva purpose to remember.