It's pretty easy to get down living in our modern society with all of its monotonous, soul draining, materialistic uncertainty. However sometimes it helps to put things into the larger perspective. If you truly take a moment to slow down and give your mind time to rest the bigger picture can come into view. I have been interested in the cosmos for quite sometime, I have spent countless hours meditating on the mysteries of existence, reveling in the discoveries of mankind. Wowed by the new frontiers being explored by men and women far more intelligent than myself. Be it understanding consciousness, quantum mechanics, parallel universes, the search for black holes, or the origins of the universe itself.
Throughout the years with the more I learn and the more questions I have one thing has come to amaze me more than any other. That in a universe as vast and seemingly unending as ours, one that is thought to have existed for fourteen billion years,on a young planet (4.5 billion years old) in a backwater Galaxy in a undistinguished area of space there lives a young species (2.5 million years old) that has the capabilities to look out on all of the wonders of nature and ask these questions at all. I think that is a most glorious happenstance. That perspective gives me a sliver of hope that there are other species just like us out there wondering the exact same questions and feeling the same things as we are here on earth.
So when shit here seems to be too deep look out to the stars and know that our problems as big as they may seem, are infintely small on the cosmic scale and that simply being conscience is a gift worth more than any other. And if that doesnt do the trick well thank god for alcohol!
Hubble Deep Field view of a small part of the universe (those spiral shapes are galaxies)
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