Modesty

Daily Meditation 605 — 10/23/2023

Not but 80ish years ago, a poll went out asking high school seniors “Are you a very important person?”

The results?

12% answered in the affirmative — “Yes, I am a very important person.”

Only one in ten considered themselves “very important.”

Just 20ish years ago, the same poll went out in 2006…
“Are you a very important person?”

The high school seniors?

80% of them — four in five — answered “Yes! I’m a very important person.”

— — —

Here’s the (painful) rub:

You’re not a very important person.
And nor am I.

Nearly none of us will really ever do anything that truly “changes the world” in any meaningful and measurable way.

“History books already have plenty of names in them,” I always joke.

But here’s the silver lining:

That’s just fine.

To your spouse, your parents, your children, and maybe your friends and co-workers (if you’re so lucky), yes — you’re an important person in your own right.