The Significance Conundrum

"Struggling for significance..."  This line was uttered by an acquaintance a couple of days ago.  They were talking about themselves.  


Sort of a funny line.  And a cutting thought.  "What is significant?"


I think it's kind of beyond us to know, and at the same time we are required to construct our own grand edifice of significance out of the materials of our own lives.  Or not.


I'm pretty ZEN about significance:
Nothing is significant/Everything is Significant.  


Which is sort of like the same thing, and leaves the door open to pretty much whatever you want to make of it all.


So I kind of think it's just another one of those mysterious, all-encompassing subjects.  And it's pretty much a work in progress.  And I think you basically have to live your life as if everything you do is significant, even the things you do that you know for sure aren't.  


Because ultimately we don't really know.  Or we can make it up anyway we want to.  And there are times when you realize what you thought was significant really isn't/wasn't, and what you thought isn't/wasn't really is/was...


So I think it's basically not worth worrying about.  We live, and think, and do.  That's probably enough.