This makes it more important than you are. That object--say a Ming vase that has been there for 500 years--the number of interactions it has had, with so many people, with all their rich ideas and associations.
說是一個明代花瓶罷，它已經存在了五百年，這期間它與多少人、多少思潮交錯，而你只是它時光之旅中的區區一人、短短一瞬，你不能不謙虛對待。