{ "item_title" : "The Relative Unimportance of It All", "item_author" : [" Tony Setley "], "item_description" : "This is not a book about making every moment count, discovering your hidden purpose, or convincing yourself that you are secretly changing the world. It begins with the uncomfortable possibility that you probably aren't.What if almost everything you have been told about living an important life begins with the wrong question?We spend our lives trying to make them matter. We pursue meaningful work, build relationships, collect accomplishments, preserve memories, and hope that somehow we will leave something behind. We are told to find our purpose, change the world, prioritize what really matters, and build a legacy.There is only one problem: eventually, almost all of it disappears.Careers end. Fortunes disperse. Institutions close. Families pass from memory. Time has a way of reducing the enormous distinctions of the present until the celebrated and the anonymous, the extraordinary and the ordinary, begin to look remarkably alike.That might sound bleak. The Relative Unimportance of It All: And Why Everything Matters Anyway argues that it doesn't have to be.Tony Setley takes seriously the likelihood that none of us will not change the world, that our greatest accomplishments will eventually be forgotten, and that there need be no grand plan for your life beyond the life you are actually living. Rather than searching for another comforting way around those realities, the question is aksed: what happens when we stop running from them.Moving through questions of time, ambition, work, family, pleasure, suffering, attention, and the strange experience of simply being alive, this book challenges our obsession with importance and our fear of what might be left when importance disappears. What emerges is a provocative exploration of why a temporary, ordinary, relatively unimportant life may deserve far more attention than we give it.This is not a book about making every moment count, discovering your hidden purpose, or convincing yourself that you are secretly changing the world. It begins with the uncomfortable possibility that you probably aren't-and asks why that should change the value of the life happening in front of you.The relative unimportance of it all might not be a reason to care less; perhaps it is where the interesting part begins?", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/212/9798192127988_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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