I had the opportunity to see a planetarium show the other day. It zoomed us out from the earth to our solar system. To our galaxy. To all the galaxies that we can see – up to 13.4 billion light years away.
And then asked us to imagine the many we couldn’t see.
At the end of this fascinating presentation, the narrator said: “I hope you’re feeling small.”
That captured how I was feeling.
I find it helpful to ponder our own insignificance from time to time. It is a reminder to not take life too seriously and to do the best with what we have, where we are.
In the final analysis, very little is really going to matter. The things we worry about, stress about, waste time being envious about – they don’t register on a cosmic scale.
We get to choose what matters.
Maybe we can choose more wisely when we remember how small we really are.
A Learning a Day 