It's All Relative

What’s the point? The age old question, why are we even here? I’m sure there’s a ton of philosophical answers to this, but in the end I think it’s different for everyone and depends on what’s important to them. In The Final Solution the old man says “the world will continue to roll blindly on its way through the void, and in the end Mr. Shane will still be dead. But in the meantime, Inspector, Number 4 must be re-queened” (p. 24). For the old man the most important thing to him at that point in his life was his bees. It didn’t matter that Mr. Shane had been killed because it was over with. What happened, happened and he was going to move on with what he deemed important. To Linus the most important thing was Bruno. He was so upset, not because a man died but because his bird was stolen. Linus probably knew that Bruno held important information, but to him ending the war wasn’t that important. It’s all relative for each person. For a stressed Hamilton student, the entire world is riding on their next test grade. For a leader of a country their world is relying on how well their peace talks go with another leader. It just shows how we all, especially here at Hamilton, live in our own little bubble. Our problems become more important than what’s going on in the rest of the world. We seem to loose sight of the important things and become so obsessed with our own problems. People can begin to think that thing like grades are the most important thing in their life, forgetting about their friends and family. We have to be careful that we don’t loose sight of the things that are actually important in our lives as we become obsessed with the things that seem to control our lives.