Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'
What's important to me is people just being people.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.
All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.