About importance

I have been thinking about what is and is not important. The initiating situation for my thoughts was a moment when I walked Dante close to a sport hall where my team was right about to warm up for an “important” match. I was outside in the park, with my dog, some people passed by, winter was still around but sun was predicting a nice weekend and I felt like standing there between two worlds. One world was in the sport hall, where the nerves were tested, excitement in people – audience and players was like the heat above a desert. Expectations, hopes, wishes, worries – that all was speaking about the importance of that moment.

The other world was outside in the park, behind the walls of the sport hall, where everything was calm, weekendish, filled with joy about the coming free days and preparations for saturday lunch. The importance of the moment was not highlighted by any drums, clapping or shouting.  It did not seem like there was something “big” going on just a few meters away.  The walls of the sport hall clearly divided the moment into “significant” and “insignificant” and the important handball match was not existing out there in the park.

That moment made me think about the importance we assign to our jobs, roles, experiences, to situations and events.  And some of them feel ridiculous.  For example a career feels incredibly ridiculous to me. If someone wants to have a position just as a sign of a career or just to feel good about him/herself, and not for the reason to be able to do the job connected to the position great,  then I am losing respect for this person.  If a person does not enjoy his/her job but his/her position, I just smile. At that moment in the park I felt the relativity of importance. It was very relieving moment.  An important moment. For me =) It changed my view at people who surround me, who were or have been in my life. It changed my attitude and somehow gave me distance I am very thankful for.

Each moment is important. Each second we decide who we want to be, what we want to be like and whether we want to act important or just to act sincerly for the cause we consider is important.