It is tempting to think that the world would do just as well without us. An individual human seems so small compared to the whole big earth full of 7 billion people.
On one level, the words of Deepak Chopra seem trite. The world would surely go on if an individual person "checked out." Maybe it's not really about what would happen if one person decided that living wasn't worth it. Maybe the real importance of each human puzzle piece is in the worth of the whole puzzle related to that one piece.
I guess I have this strange notion that no one is born by accident, even if their birth was not planned, and that each one of us brings important energy that the world needs to keep on going .
What each one of us does affects what others who are in relation to us do. If just one person decides to change their actions and energy to work for peace and true understanding, for example, that will change the world. We may not see it happen for a long while but it will happen.
In that way, each person can make a vital difference in the world. Unfortunately, each person can make the world more hellish as well. It has to work both ways.
“I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too.”
“Maybe that’s why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn’t able to do what it was meant to do… Maybe it’s the same with people.
If you lose your purpose… it’s like you’re broken.”
Hugo Cabret (played by Asa Butterfield) in the
2011 Academy Award nominated movie, "Hugo"
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