We are so small

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This might be a wierd topic but maybe it might not be and some of you might know what Im talking about. Those whole live in large cities will maybe be able to relate to what im saying. Large cities like chicago, New York, LA, Toronto, Miami, etc...

We all know that there about 6 billion people on this planet, and that you are just one man. That your individual importance amongst so many is small. Thats the way I feel, especialy living in a large city with so many people everywhere you go, and nobody knows who you are. There so many people, each with a diffrent story, a diffrent life, diffrent circumstances.

For example I could drive out to another borough of Ny, like manhattan and see people walking the streets whom I'll never see again. You can see people sitting in the park or couples walking down the street or people inside stores or diffrent clubs at nights drinking and partying. None of them know that you exist, and you will never meet them.

There so many diffrent kinds of people in this world and Im not going to lie, it actually makes me feel bad, more specifically insignificant and unimportant,as if your life had no special meaning or purpose.

I know the world keeps moving and it waits for no one, but I guess I havent come to terms with that fact and I havent realized that each of us play a small role in this very large world.

Especially when it comes to people my age, when I see guys and girls my age in the city at night partying, or driving off or walking past me on the street when everyone is out, I tend to wonder about where there from, and I even envy them, because I dont have friends who party much. It just seems like everyone around me is having fun except me. Occasionally my friends will go to the city and we will eat something, not party, but I bet there people there who look at me and think about all the fun Im having when there sitting with their friendes ready to go home. Maybe its all about perspective.

I just feel like the world is passing me by, and that there so many people that you really dont mean much at all. Secondly everytime I go outside, I tend to envy those who look like there having alot of fun.

Anybody ever feel this way?
 

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I've felt that way a couple of times but it doesn't trouble me as such. Maybe because I haven't analysed it to the point where I feel strongly about it.
 

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Yes I have, and it's scared me. There's so many people out there. So many people who are left to their own devices. I've met bridge people, people who live in the woods, people who are totally crazy because nobody can stand to speak to them for more than two minutes.

I believe in two bums knocking people out at two in the monring with shovels and hammers. I believe in delivery men having rocks dropped on their heads from above...

It makes me think of sadists and masochists with how SMALL we are in this world.

Comparatively, if these people can get away with murder, imagine what a DJ could get away with in the opposite end of the spectrum...
 

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I now EXACTLY what you're saying.

Strange to find out I'm not the only one who pondered about this.

Everything happens for a reason.

You leave an impression on everyone you meet. No matter how small, and likewise everyone you meet leaves an impression on you.

No matter how insignificant it is, it can shape your life and helps to make you the person you are today.

I think of this often. I've met so many different types of people.
I've been to so many different kinds of places...
I use everyone I meet as an opportunity to learn. Both pleasant people and un-pleasant people.

I go to Manhattan often. I know how it feels to be overwhelmed in the crowd of all these unique eccentric-ass personalities.

But look back on your experiences, aren't they just as interesting as everyone else's? You can't get to know everyone, but it is just as much their lost from them not meeting you as it is for you not meeting them.
Just smile to whoever you meet. Leave a nice warm impression, and though 10 years from now they don't remember you, you still played a role in their life. Even if it was creating small talk w/ them that one day, or making them smile w/ that one compliment.
 

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Actually I can relate to you, but I like this feeling.

It means that I'm free. The world doesn't revolve around me. I used to think that everyone was watching me to make fun of me, this kind of thing. Now I just know that I'm one dude walking around, and I'm free to do my thing.

It means too that I'm free from what people expect/think of me. Sooner or later everyone goes by. You stay with yourself. The only worthful thing is doing things that make you happy, cause that will be the things that you'll cling to when you remember about your past. And live your life on your terms.

Realize that and you're free for the better. That's how I feel at least :)
 

What happens, IN HER MIND, is that she comes to see you as WORTHLESS simply because she hasn't had to INVEST anything in you in order to get you or to keep you.

You were an interesting diversion while she had nothing else to do. But now that someone a little more valuable has come along, someone who expects her to treat him very well, she'll have no problem at all dropping you or demoting you to lowly "friendship" status.

Quote taken from The SoSuave Guide to Women and Dating, which you can read for FREE.

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Originally posted by djbr
Actually I can relate to you, but I like this feeling.

It means that I'm free. The world doesn't revolve around me. I used to think that everyone was watching me to make fun of me, this kind of thing. Now I just know that I'm one dude walking around, and I'm free to do my thing.

It means too that I'm free from what people expect/think of me. Sooner or later everyone goes by. You stay with yourself. The only worthful thing is doing things that make you happy, cause that will be the things that you'll cling to when you remember about your past. And live your life on your terms.

Realize that and you're free for the better. That's how I feel at least :)
LOL so many people go through this robot phase. You described it great br. I wish I could have said what you just said 15 years ago. It would have saved me from being so depressed during my teens.
 

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I often feel the same way. I think because of this it may be healthier to live in a small town or somewhere where you're not 1 in a population of half a million. I'll be reminded of how many other people there are on this planet, how many other people there are who I'm supposedly "neighbors" with and have never met, and I'll start thinking of how insignificant my existence is in the present and in the grand scheme of things. And yeah, it's kinda scary.
 

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exactly

Yeah, Im glad there are those who understand what Im trying to say.

Its hard to feel special and unique when there so many people in this world.

I guess you have to find a purpose and a meaning to existance and your life, to give it some importance.

Socializing and meeting as many people as I can meet, thats what I feel is the only thing that brings me a little bit closer to expanding my horizons and learing about the small world outside of me and my home.

Also you could try and achieve great things in your career and your health. You would be the select few who are in fit shape and care about your future.

It would make your small existance feel larger and more important in the grand scheme of things.
 
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