'The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.'
'Why do we exist?' is a question that gets asked relentlessly, which serves as a testament to mankind's endless desire to know. Countless arguments and debates are a result of this inquiry. Rarely, however, do we take time to ponder upon other questions, all of equal obscurity. If we were asked where we exist, most would simply answer "Earth". Other people would reply with "the Universe", with the same duh-what-do-you-think voice that is used for the former. But the universe means so much more than two words and the breath it takes to utter them. The Universe is everything, anything, and nothing; all exists in it, all will exist in it, and all will cease to exist in it (including the universe itself). Compared to this vastness, the Earth holds little importance and mankind even less. In spite of this, we humans are still swimming in our own self-entitlement. Believing that we can take from the Earth as much as we please, forgetting that we our taking just as much of ourselves. Believing that we are its conquerors, though in reality, we are at its tightfisted mercy. Believing that each person in the world has a certain rank and label, as if we didn't all originate from the same minuscule, pale blue dot. Who are we to create such pretentious delusions? We think that we are the most superior race on earth, yet we still fail to remember one humbling fact; that we are unimportant. That we are merely dots on a dot, merely specs on a spec. So, what is the point of existing? However unimportant we are in this universe, however delusional we may think we are, our existence is what ever we make it to be. When we are surrounded by a vast desert of insignificance, and the universe deems us inconsequential, all we can really do is to give it our own definition. "The meaning of life is to give life meaning." -Ken Hudgins ~Jayson
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JaysonJust a normal guy with not-so-normal thoughts. Expect school assignments, random poetic outbursts, weird entries, and rants. Archives
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