Order of Importance (experience, sex)

[Lightkeeper]

What are the most important things in life and how do you determine importance?

[Francine]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

What are the most important things in life and how do you determine importance?

1. Posting on RF
2. Breathing air
3. Drinking water
4. Eating food
5. Taking shelter
6. Having sex

The procedure for sorting by importance is self-evident.

[Somkid]

1. Breathing air
2. Drinking water
3. Eating food
4. Taking shelter
5. Having sex

[YmirGF]

1. Fostering an environment that allows my consciousness to grow
2. Breathing
3. Ingesting pleasant, nourishing foods and guzzling clean cold water.
4. Shelter for living in with, all that entails
5. Having family and friends I can feel good about needing. I have too much love to keep to myself.
6. Making people smile or at the very least making them think.
7. Having time to write out my thoughts. (Anyone prone to writing will surely understand.)
8. Having the ability to express myself creatively, be it in wood, stone, landscaping, painting or whatever.

The order of these varies with my moods, but for this nanosecond in time and space that is the perfect order.

[Willamena]

1. Me.
2. All other things, like you.
3. Talking about the above, especially me.

[whereismynotecard]

1. Having fun
That is the most important thing... Because having fun is the most fun thing to do, and nothing else matters.

[eudaimonia]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

What are the most important things in life and how do you determine importance?

I think it depends on the individual, and importance is determined by their contribution to the fulfillment of those psychological needs that help maintain an active and rational approach to one's life.

I might as well throw in a nifty quote:

There is a distinctive course of life that is right for each individual, amid countless possibilities. This is the individual's vocation, variously termed his or her 'genius,' 'daimon,' 'Buddha nature,' or 'atman.' It consists in innate potentialities that predispose persons to a particular direction in life. As distinguished from other possibilities, the actualization by an individual of his or her potentialities affords intrinsic rewards to that person—that is, the activity is personally fulfilling and satisfying. Self-knowledge, then, is knowledge of the activities, situations, and relationships that the individual experiences as intrinsically rewarding. Engaged at these, the individual invests the best of himself or herself and strives continuously to improve, while in the process contributing objective values to others. -- David Norton

[I'm not certain about the Buddha nature or atman part of the quote, but the rest is great.]

Prioritization could use something like the fulfillment standard implied in the quote.


eudaimonia,

Mark

[Scuba Pete]

The MOST important thing in life is to love, which means I serve others first, myself last and God always.

Sometimes, that love is tough and sometimes it is sweet. But it is always centered on others.

[Bouncing Ball]

1. friends/family/love ones..
2. all the rest

[stephenw]