What is the one most important thing?
We had the question about what might be more important than time.
That got me to thinking.
What is the one, single most important thing?
Let’s make this a vote. If someone has already listed what you want to say, speak up as second, third, or whatever.
I am curious to see what comes up the most.
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Nothing really. What matters depends on individual cases. To some, it’s money, to others health, to some more others reputation, and so on. It’s usually what you feel you lack the most in life.
To not forget your sword when you leave your house.
Heart you can think of it in any sense.
The one most important thing is to realize that there is no one most important thing. At any given moment, you set your priorities. What is most important at one point in your life may differ from what is most important at another point. Circumstances change and we change as well. The one constant is the need to choose. There is no manual to tell you what choices to make.
I’m going to go for breathing
Love. Trust me. When you don’t have it, you don’t take it for granted.
Health. Second
(A good poop is right up there.)
Well, health is what keeps you alive so it’s the foundation you need to be able to pursue love or anything else.
Is love really real anyway?
I mean between a couple because I know I love my child, but it’s different, it’s pure.
With a couple it seems to feel like it’s just two codependent people playing a game trying to get what they want from each other or maybe I just haven’t found real love yet, a true friend first.
So yeah health is the most important, but some people don’t even want to live without love anyway???
@Cooper I mean any. Friends, family….
I think @Sneki95 made a good point about people wanting what they feel they lack in life.
I mean some people want a lot of money and spend a lot of their life making it and I don’t get it.
Did they grow up poor?
Were they told that they’re nobody unless they’re somebody?
Do they feel that people are only as valuable as their bank account?
Do they feel like shit unless they’re wearing expensive clothes, driving a new car and living in a big house?
Do I pursue love and relationships because I have some kind of insecurity and only feel valuable if someone else values me?
People want what they don’t have I guess?
Saying health is first is like saying that the most important thing you look for when buying a car is whether you can get it to run. Well yeah obviously, unless you plan on putting it in a museum.
I don’t know I have so many things, (any support system)
I would say family
Wow. I am amazed. I put this in social so, you know, jokers gotta joke. So far, everyone has taken this question so seriously.
Great answers, all up and down.
I think many people do tend to put that one thing they miss having the most.
I’m a little surprised though, with so many serious answers, and so many scientific minds, the answers stayed within the human race. Nobody said sunlight, or life.
Answering the question tended to be more about what is most desired.
Life. Once it’s lost it can never be recovered.
How about balance?
If preditors vs. prey being in balance, things get pretty messed up, or balance between plants and grazers?
How about ratio of land to water?
By balance, I don’t mean equal quantities, but rather, necessary division.
Witout balance, it is conceivable all life would perish, with the possible exception of very small organisms.
Contentment. The closet you can come to any form of sustainable “happiness.”
Some people need love to be content, some money, some never find peace and contentment no matter what. Contentment is when you are perfectly content with exactly how your life is going and you want nothing
No-thing. Not love, not more money, not a new object. Everything is just perfect and needs no enhancement or addition of any kind. I know, I enjoyed a sustained state of contentment a deep satisfaction for many years. I miss it, a lot.
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