Do I need pagerank?

I have been asking myself if I really need pagerank. I don´t think I do. When I lost my PR I thought I would lose my blog, my visitors, my posts.

But everything is just normal. Life goes on without pagerank and it is not that terrible. My blog is getting the same amount of visitors, my backlinks are increasing, I am having even more comments. I have another blog that is PR3 and it doesn´t get that kind of visitors.

Is pagerank important for companies? I wouldn´t say that either. The average user don´t use the toolbar so they don´t know anything about it and don´t care if the company has a high PR or not.

The ranking on the other hand is important and I don´t think pagerank and ranking go together anymore.