The quote, "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it," is a bit of a gut punch at first. It feels like a contradiction. How can something that's insignificant also be important?
This line, attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, isn't here to bum us out. Instead, it challenges us to rethink what "important" even means. On the grand cosmic scale, our biggest accomplishments and our deepest worries might barely register. We are a tiny blip in an endless universe. That can be a pretty heavy thought.
But here's the thing: the importance isn't about the mark we leave on the world. It's about the mark the world leaves on us as we live through it. The importance lies in the act of doing itself, in the experience, in the person we become along the way.
And that's the whole point of this blog. It's not just a place for my creations, thoughts, and existential ponderings. It's also a home for the weird, random, and delightfully unserious things that make life worth living.
These things might seem insignificant. They definitely won't change the world. But maybe a post will brighten your day, an image will inspire you, or a different perspective will make you feel a little less alone. Because in the end, it's all part of the process: the big thoughts and the small moments, the serious and the wonderfully silly.
My MilYou is for the messy, wonderful, and utterly ordinary process of living. It's an act of showing up, day after day, to just do it.
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This is the fourth time I have seen this quote in the past two days! Maybe I need to write a note about this.
So here are my thoughts, I hope you don't mind: I don't really consider anything to be insignificant. When we speak of something like changing the world, we imagine some massive grand impact, but in reality even major changes happen because of small "insignificant" impacts. If you affect one person, is that not changing the world? Is that person not part of this world? I think the little "insignificant" things we do cause ripples, and ripples can extend outward into something much bigger than we often give them credit for.