Parallel to Quarry
Why does everyone worry so much about life? Yes, we have our ups and downs, some worse than others but in the end all we can do is live. The world is complicated, especially when you think about the fact that there are billions of lives, stories, memories and secrets. But we only have to worry about one life out of those billions, sometimes several if you have children (but only temporarily). There are exceptions to this rule. There are those that choose to take on more responsibility and those that don’t have a choice.
In the broad picture of all of this, over eons of never ending star systems, each one of our lives lasts one billionth of a millisecond compared to the age of the universe. Like our vast expanse over space and time, our lives prove to make an impact on the world and the people that surround us.
So in a few billion years when the Adromeda galaxy collides with the Milky way, it won’t mean total destuction, it means a new beginning, the birth of something much greater than we ever imagined.
So ask yourself this, do you want to be the star in the sky that still shines brightly even know it may not be there anymore or do you want to be the darkness that people ignore to catch a glimpse of the white light shining through….
Interesting question. I think our individual lives matter more than any of us can phathom… but we all tend to feel small when looking up at the millions of sparkles up in the sky. Even if I only mattered one person on this green earth it would be worth all the struggles life throws at me.
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random noter: Ironic that you would write an entry which answered my last entry. I understand emotions pass and life is meant to be lived, but there are times where I question what the purpose of the personal struggles I face are when they remain repetitive. There is only so much of the same monotonous issue that can be dealt with before you want to throw in the towel and give it all up.
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It’s a difficult thing you’re talking about, we’re poorly equipped to understand giant numbers so a fair comprehension of the enormity of other things is kind of hard to grasp, you’re 27 right? In days that’s upwards of, hmm, 9800+ at least, it’s hard to get any sort of sense of that number. I do agree with you that there is a lot of deliberation about purpose and merit in what is really
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just an astonishing chain of events, meaning is applied and all that. I think most would benefit from getting on with things as you mentioned rather than worrying over matters where we lack control. The problem I think is that the experience of the universe is, for us, inherently linked with our senses, outside of them and outside of us we’ve no reason to believe any of it exists which gives the
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impression that we really are the stable-point of the universe, since to us it does appear that way. I’m ranting so I’ll stop here but great entry, lots to think about.
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