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What Things Are Not Important In Life?

Lukas Schwekendiek
3 min readFeb 26, 2024

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Now, this may be an unconventional take, so please read until the end, but I believe that nothing is innately important in life.

Life’s point and purpose is to be alive.

What you do as you live does not matter.

There is no guideline for a “well-lived life”, and even if there was, there is no one forcing you to live such a life.

And while we humans want to find meaning in this life, life does not owe us that.

Life is just life, and there’s nothing innately, undisputedly, important about it.

Yes, there are things that generally lead to a higher quality life, such as money, relationships or friends, it does not guarantee importance.

You could also say that things like Air, Water, Food and Shelter are important in life, but those are technically only important to live, not to all of life.

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Lukas Schwekendiek
Lukas Schwekendiek

Written by Lukas Schwekendiek

Life Coach, Speaker, Writer. Published on TIME, Inc & Huffington Post. Coaching available again! Email: Lukas.schwekendiek@gmail.com with the word "Coaching"

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