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A home cooked meal, a kind word, a smile matters. > Most of what we do doesn't matter. Speak for yourself.
by snikeris 8y ago
A home cooked meal, a kind word, a smile matters.
> Most of what we do doesn't matter.
Speak for yourself.
- Lio 8y agoIt's a mater of philosophy and scale I guess. Your home cooked meal, kind word or smile won't have any affect on a star going super nova across the galaxy. On the other hand that time you were a bit grumpy and short tempered with someone or eat a McDonald's probably won't mater either. In 1000 years I suspect that no one will know a single thing about my life. The work of Stanley Kubrik, however, is as likely to be around as the works of Cicero or Shakespeare. I take more comfort in that.
- aglavine 8y agoOn the contrary, I think Kubrick was great on spite of his shortcomings. Most of great artists in history were kind people. I could bet that his movies would be better (or even there would be more of them), having him been a more people's person. Alas, we can only speculate.
- Lio 8y agoI'm not sure there's any way to judge whether most great artists in history were "kind people" or not. We all have our short comings though and "feet of clay". For all we know he may have wanted to be a better person, for whatever that means, but not been able to be any other way. He is not his artwork.
- snikeris 8y agoI agree that it's a matter of scale. Some people move the dial so much that they effect change in the present and in the foreseeable future. You could say these people matter more than most others. However, to say that most of what we do doesn't matter is a denial of one's own life.
- vokep 8y agoA home cooked meal, a kind word or smile won't change anything about a star across the galaxy, but what does anything at all about a star across the galaxy matter if it doesn't in some way help to make home cooked meals, dispense kind words, or cause smiles? Matter doesn't matter, consciousness does.