After living for so long, we can forget that there was ever a time in which we didn't live. We can get so caught up in our goals that we might neglect or impair others to complete them. We can get so consumed in them that once we reach them, we don't know where to go. And so we shoot higher, and larger, and grander, and bigger. But then we reach the moon, and once we get there, we take a step back and look at how far we've come. This is an awesome illustration of a wonderful quote by an amazing person who was...
As humans, we think we're a big deal. We think that we're *the* deal. Until we realize that we're not. That in the grand scheme of the universe, we're not much at all. That all of our individual struggles, achievements, and possessions are not much, and even our joint accomplishments don't cause the universe to change much. We could reach another galaxy (something many, many years off) and still be: very, very small- there are 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe alone. Because we come from a very small place. So if something's really stressing you out this week, take a step back and realize that it's really nothing much at all.
