Significance

Does this matter?


It's the question of a lifetime really.  The thing that everyone wants to know because...if it doesn't matter, why would you bother with it?  Hell, does anything really matter?  I see mostly people with one of two opposing views.  Either they consider that generally everything matters or that nothing matters at all.  Theoretically, there are any number of other options in between.  But, maybe it's just the people I spend time with and talk to, I don't seem to find many with anything other than the two aforementioned.

Opinions seem to change on this quite a bit, too.  I guess in large part it depends on the way things are going in a person's life, the people they associate themselves with, and given incidents that may influence their opinions on such things.  It seems, though, that there is this particularly strong emphasis on whether something does or doesn't matter.

Admittedly, under certain circumstances, whether something does or does not "matter" with respect to a certain reference point can change things that may come to pass.  The virtue of raising such questions is dubious.  At points, I guess, it does in fact make sense.  But at the same time, it seems like such things often cloud anything of necessity, anything worthwhile.  I know I'm thoroughly guilty of this...and it's something I really should work to fix, or perhaps am starting to now.