The best part about the Universe, in my humble opinion, has to be the fact that its size and scope really shows how little any of us actually matter.
Think about it, the planet Earth has over six billion people on it. Already that shows how little each of us matter on a day to day basis.
In reality, if you were to die tomorrow your death would probably affect twenty people at most. Sure, a lot of people would be pretty sad for a week or two but they’d eventually move on. Your death isn’t going to cause anyone’s life to spiral out of control.
OK, let’s play Devil’s Advocate right here.
Say your death caused someone’s life to spiral out of control. Well, since your existence means jack-shit in the grand scheme of the universe how much do you think that the person’s life that was ruined by your death matters? Zero.
The Earth is billions of years old (take that Christians!) and its survived the deaths of way more important people than you. When JFK, Ghandi or Alexander the Great all kicked the bucket the world didn’t spin off its axis and hurl itself into the Sun, it just kept on moving.
This brings us to another point, nothing that any human has ever done, or will ever do, has meant anything in the scheme of the whole universe.
The Earth is only one planet in our solar system. Who says that anything that happens on Earth is any more important that what happens on a daily basis on Venus or Mercury? It isn’t, you’ve just placed more importance on it.
Say we cure Cancer tomorrow, or AIDS for that matter. Sure that matters for a small population of the planet right now and some people in the future, but it doesn’t matter to the millions of people who died of those diseases in the past or their friends and family.
It also wouldn’t matter to the millions of other species of creatures and bacteria living on this planet who are not affected by either of those diseases.
Curing Cancer or AIDS also wouldn’t matter to anyone not living on Earth.
I’m not saying that there are little green men living on Mars. What I’m saying is that the Milky Way Galaxy we live in is just one of many out there in the Universe. Who knows how many planets are actually out there? We don’t even know where the Universe begins and ends, or if it begins or ends at all.
So really, if we’re just one person living on a planet of currently six billions people, with billions of others who have come before us, and we share it with millions of other species, in a solar system of multiple other planets, within a Universe so large we have no way of knowing its beginning or end, how could our individual existence begin to matter?
It doesn’t. Have yourself a great night.
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