"One should never throw the letter Q into a pivet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable."

“I AM SIGNIFICANT!” Screamed the dust speck. (Calvin and Hobbes)

"I KNOW" replied God.

 

This is one of the questions and my response to one of the questions at the beginning of the unit. Though unfortunately, I feel like everyone thought this was more funny and less revealing than I intended it to be. I will now proceed to set the record strait.

My response was meant to be a little funny, but my point was that everyone and everything is significant. Humanity might have useless and make things for no reason, but God does not. If you are here you are important, especially if you don't know why. In The Stranger Meursault did not think that there was any significance to the things that he did, like not caring about his mothers death, going out with a girl after the funeral. These things did matter in his trial, because everything we do affects something else. I'm not saying that these choices by Meursault had any bearing on the trial and should have been used as evidence, shouldn't, but the point is that they did.

Everything that we or anything does has significance because the actions we take or do not take act like ripples spreading outward, and dominoes affecting the next one in line. An example of this is the whole if a butterfly flaps its wings and a hurricane is created around the world. Another example of this is in the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, here is the quote,

"He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant pivet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn't stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away.

During the following weeks Ford Prefect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox. The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the letter Q into a pivet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable."
Even if we don't see it, there is still a chain of events that results from our every action. The only we can do is to be aware that it exists, try not to start a bad chain, and hope for the best.