The universe is so big. And we’re so small. Our planet is smaller than a grain of sand on the beach if you say our Earth is the universe. Solar systems crash every day. There are trillions of solar systems (maybe more) and at least billions of galaxies. It’s almost incomprehensible. We are insignificant in a way. The lifespan of our planet and our sun is but a wink of the cosmos. So why not have a good time while we are here?
We act as if everything that happens on our planet is such a big deal. Global warming. Global cooling. It’s one planet of more than trillions. Sure, we are biased because we live on this planet. But looking through the universe’s perspective, we’re not a big deal. We are less than a grain of sand. We are less than one millionth of a grain of sand. I think I know why most people hate astronomy. It makes us seem so insignificant. A mere pawn. But it is the truth. Sure, we can live a good life here on Earth and be fruitful and multiply, but in the end, we will die out. Our legacy will be forgotten. We will have no living anscestors. And further ahead, our solar system will disappear, our sun will die out, and it will all be turned into dust. Great civilizations rise and fall, everything turns to dust. In a way, it’s kind of funny.
It’s quite humbling, isn’t it? No matter how big you get, you will never last forever. Not even Jesus will live in the universe forever. It is all temporary. Even the universe will be gone sometime in the distant, distant future. Imagine what everything will look like 500 trillion Earth years from now. Just grasping the magnitude of that number is mind-bending in itself. Just trying to expand everyone’s perspective. Sure, we’re all going to die, but so is our planet and our solar system and our galaxy. Not anytime soon, but it is going to happen, regardless if we are there to observe it. The universe doesn’t need an audience to exist or not exist. It just is (or isn’t). Now I think I understand why some people smoke cigarettes.
Even if you live to a hundred years, it’s negligable. Even a thousand. A million. What is that in comparison to infinity? It’s nothing. We are somewhere in the middle, buried in obscurity. But that doesn’t mean we can’t feel good about it. We can at least be grateful for life. That we are smart enough to make this realization. That even though our lives are nothing compared to eternity, we can have a few laughs. And I think that’s the most important thing. Enjoying the time we are here doing what it is we love most. Otherwise, the whole realization of impermanance, of eternal nothingness gets kind of depressing. 
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Right on!! I never looked at it like that before. You are absolutely brilliant!!!! Are you a college professor? But I do have one question: In the scheme of cosmic relativity, if the universe is a sandbox, where does my toy dump truck come into play? The people have spoken. We anxiousely await your next mind-bending insight!!
yes yes. the eternal nothingness. it always makes my day
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Nothing is depressing unless you decide that it is. You have nothing to fear. How you live your life is something you can learn from now and forever.
To me impermanence isn’t depressing and I don’t think it should be. We did not come to be out of nothing. When we die we will not simply cease to be. Observably nothing simply ceases. Think of a cloud in the sky. After it has rained we look into the sky and think the cloud has disappeared. But it hasn’t it is now the water on the ground.
Everything transforms as part of a giant interdependent and interconnected web. The universe emulates itself on all levels. It is holographic in nature. The nature of a hologram is such that even the smallest piece of the hologram is a perfect representation of the whole.
And one last little interesting tidbit. While we are alive we emit a constant stream of light particles. Think of the light from stars that travels billions of light years to reach us here at earth. Some of the stars are so far away they have actually died but it takes so long for the light to travel the distance that it looks like the star is still burning.
Now combine our emanation of light out into the universe with the fact that when any subatomic particle comes into contact with another subatomic particle it becomes entangled with it. Anything that affects either one of the two particles has an instantaneous non-local effect upon the other.
Consider how each of the particles of light emanated from our living bodies have become entangled with countless other particles as they journey out beyond the stars. And those particles are entangled with countless other particles, which are also entangled with countless other particles and so on. In this physical lifetime how entangled must we become with the universe!
Just some thoughts
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Andrew,all I can say – AMEN to each Your word in this article!Bravo!