Who is the most important person in the world?
You might say the president of America, or a religious leader followed by many people. Or perhaps Oprah, Jennifer Lopez or the Queen of England.
The most important person in the world is you!
The proof is easy: you live as no one has ever lived before you, and as if no one will live after you.
Have you seen yourself running with your children, darting between the cars while the footbridge passes right over your head? You are sure that bridge was built to decorate your sky: what use is it if you have to climb twenty steps and come down twenty more? Only people who are afraid of the cars use it. You know that life and death are in God's hands. Of course: you are the most important person in the world.
Have you seen yourself driving as if you owned the earth and everything on it, as if all the traffic on the planet must follow the swings of your steering wheel, living by the motto "first come, first served"? Because you are the most important person in the world…
Have you seen yourself throwing rubbish in the street and waiting for the street sweeper to follow you and clean up? When you see paper in the street, you don't reach down to pick it up; instead you raise your complaints to the heavens, cursing the council, its workers, its officials and all your fellow citizens… amen…
Because, of course, you are the most important person in the world…
And because you are the most important person in the world, you carelessly throw away a plastic bag, knowing it will outlive you by two thousand years. But who cares? Your children and grandchildren can deal with it later. You are like a visitor to a village who drinks from its well and then not only spits in it but urinates in it… and worse…
You fast for your Lord and quarrel with His creatures. You claim to be virtuous and stare at every woman in the street, expecting each to suit your taste.
Irresponsible, insensitive, rude and indifferent to others…
This is the most important person in the world…
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