How important are you?

[Brian37]

I think it's a good question. How important are you really? What is your real value? Do you know? Do you care? What makes a person important?

I'll be honest, I've spent a great deal of mental energy assessing my own importance relative to other people. Somewhat unsurprisingly, I've come to the conclusion that I am a far more important person than most people. But this isn't for no good reason. My superiority is evident, in a number of ways. I won't explain any of those ways because I would get overwhelmed and I just want to get this thread posted.

So what makes you important?

"Important" can only apply in the short term from birth to death. But in the context of the age of the universe and knowing our star and planet's behaviors, we as a species will long be gone even before the sun expands and fries our planet.

Galileo was important, and still is to this day as far as human understanding of physics. But he wasn't around 4 billion years ago, and humans wont be around 5 billion years from now. Galileo was certainly smarter than the majority of the population of his time,  but that didn't stop them from putting him under house arrest.

So when you say you are important, you are, to yourself and to those who know you, like you and or love you. But if history has shown humanity countless times, ignorance en mass can stop on your knowledge and oppress it.