What makes life significant?

What is important for all people, what makes their life significant, is [knowing] they are loved.  The person in a difficult situation will hold on if he knows Someone is waiting for me, Someone wants me and needs me. -Benedict XVI, quoted by Peter John Cameron, O.P., in Magnificat magazine, September, 2011; pp. 2-3

is this true?

it resonates as being true for me.  when i look at my life -especially the difficult times, -knowing that someone loved me has made all the difference in the world.  my parents.  if no one else, i am so grateful i knew my parents loved/loves me.  not everyone has that, which inspires me to try in my own small, quiet way, to be that 'someone' for others.

in a way, my parents were Christ for me, and made/make it easier for me to believe that my encounters with Christ are real.  he knows my weakness, my shortcomings, how shallow and selfish i can be.... he knows all my faults -and he waits for me, loves me and even needs me.  when i ponder this, it feels like a powerful wind swirling within....

there is a certain joy that comes from knowing you have given someone in a difficult situation hope, the sense they are wanted, and needed, and loved.  humbling too, to be Christ for another....