the world is a big place - full of people, animals and plants. can you comprehend the faces of 6 billion people? that's a big number. how about the stories of those 6 billion? most of them are tragic - people being exploited by others thousands and thousands of miles away; and the exploiters most of the time don't know. we just consume. but this post is not about social justice. it's about scope. for as many people and stories as there are, planet earth is a tiny dot in the whole of the universe.
is 6 billion a large number? imagine there being 200 billion (a conservative estimate) stars in our galaxy alone, and probably over 130 billion galaxies in the universe. tracking with me? there's a lot out there - beauty beyond our imagining. is there life? again, that is probably for another post. a friend of mine asked me recently if i ever wanted to be an astronaut, and this is my answer for her - no, but now i do. though, i don't think i could ever survive the nasa training. it's mainly about the exploring. i love to explore. i love to know. my mom always said that i would always ask 'why?'. that is a trait i am learning to recover and live out again. curiosity is interwined with our existence. we may never found out, but we will always strive to know.
so whether it's traveling among the light years, or the distance between the synpases and the soul, let's ask why. let's be curious. let's discover the cosmos all around us.
cosmos; from greek; meaning world; the entirity of existence.
2 comments:
hi jeremy!
I'm a french girl who came here by hazard! I really like the way you describe your feeligns and how you write it. I'm a part of this '6 bilion people', and I have my own story too but I regonize myself in what you say.
It's strange to say that, and maybe you'll think that french girls are mad but i just wanted to thanks you: I read a lot of blogs (I don't know if you use the same word in english) and your blog is pretty cool and intersant.
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Hey Julia! Welcome to the blog (we do use the same word in English). I hope you enjoy it. I wish I could read yours, but unfortunately, my French is awful. Hopefully, someday it and German will come, but for now, I remain a pitiful mono-lingual creature.
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