The color blue is just blue and bananas are just bananas...sometimes

There are a lot of tendencies that people will over think and interpret things. True that sometimes this can't be really avoided since, maybe it is in our nature? Whatever the reason behind that there must be some "base level" on how people should understand things. Then again this would be very subjective since there can be numerous bases for people's comprehension about things. Nonetheless an individual should not be insensitive and ignorant when it comes to "common things".
Every individual's comprehension definitely varies from one another. Even if that should be a basis for understanding that there are some things that people cannot comprehend to though that should not be a reason for indifference towards important matters. Sometimes the interpretation of "important" things for other people is not too important for others, maybe that is where the problem lies. Unless we have a synced mind that everyone would think the same way then the value of things, or importance, would not be an issue. Dealing with a person's way of thinking may be a good way to address issues with how people give weight to things and by dealing I mean living with it. There are A LOT out there that can be very stubborn when it comes to their views and beliefs in life and chances are you will meet them everyday unless you live under a rock. Just by living with how people think and somewhat accepting how their beliefs goes can be a temporary remedy on how people deal with importance in general. Though as stated earlier that the simple ignorance of people can be a cause of this problem, this "ignorance" can also be used the other way around since once you start not minding what others think of you and start thinking about yourself and how to improve "you" then things might go pretty well. There are also times when people try so hard to imbue their beliefs into you and that is very irritating which for the most part causes violence of different types. Nonetheless importance and belief would go well in an equation but the problem is that people try to hard sometimes that it messes up the equation and thus the birth of over thinking and over interpretation.