Lying in the warm red tiles of the terrace, watching all that glittering grandeur in front of my eyes, up above in the sky, I am feeling a strange, humbling sensation in my mind now.
Limited by the human form, I am peering at just a segment of the wide vast Universe. Within this small fragment of the boundless sky, countless stars, unseen cosmic objects and familiar planets are all swirling around at unimaginable speeds and farthest distances. Before all this vastness, I am feeling like a puny mite, not even as big as a speck of dust.
These cosmic objects have been coexisting with this planet of ours for billions of years. My ancestors from millennia ago have all come and gone, leading their lives under the watchful eyes of these celestial observers. In the years ahead, the generations after me will also come into existence to live under this same grand firmament, but not forever.
Within this tiny blip of our lives in the great stretch of Time, how many funny games do we play, how transient are our dreamy pursuits! Even the oldest of humans does not get to live for more than a 100+ years and even that is enough to cause neither a trough nor a peak in the Timeline of this Universe. Within the fleeting tales of our lives, the active, sentient and sensible portions form may be forty years or so at best, if you leave out all those years of childhood and senility.
Within so tiny a period, we cram all our desires. Money, possessions, properties, gadgets, drugs, addictions, sex, relationships, you name the silliest of games and we humans always find ourselves running behind one or the other of those 'goals', while all that is really needed for a peaceful life is nothing much of any of these.
All that we hold dear today will not come with us forever. And, all those that hold us dear today, will not have us forever either. All that we have is the Here and the Now.
I could do nothing more than feel my eyes well up with tears of gratitude. Not for any fictional god that 'created' this Universe, but just to the whole of Existence, simply for my being alive in the Here and the Now. I feel my ego trampled and myself humbled, but at the same time there is something within me that feels a strange Oneness with all that starry splendor in front of me. I feel more grateful than ever before. I feel more alive than I have ever felt before! 💗
Limited by the human form, I am peering at just a segment of the wide vast Universe. Within this small fragment of the boundless sky, countless stars, unseen cosmic objects and familiar planets are all swirling around at unimaginable speeds and farthest distances. Before all this vastness, I am feeling like a puny mite, not even as big as a speck of dust.
These cosmic objects have been coexisting with this planet of ours for billions of years. My ancestors from millennia ago have all come and gone, leading their lives under the watchful eyes of these celestial observers. In the years ahead, the generations after me will also come into existence to live under this same grand firmament, but not forever.
Within this tiny blip of our lives in the great stretch of Time, how many funny games do we play, how transient are our dreamy pursuits! Even the oldest of humans does not get to live for more than a 100+ years and even that is enough to cause neither a trough nor a peak in the Timeline of this Universe. Within the fleeting tales of our lives, the active, sentient and sensible portions form may be forty years or so at best, if you leave out all those years of childhood and senility.
Within so tiny a period, we cram all our desires. Money, possessions, properties, gadgets, drugs, addictions, sex, relationships, you name the silliest of games and we humans always find ourselves running behind one or the other of those 'goals', while all that is really needed for a peaceful life is nothing much of any of these.
All that we hold dear today will not come with us forever. And, all those that hold us dear today, will not have us forever either. All that we have is the Here and the Now.
I could do nothing more than feel my eyes well up with tears of gratitude. Not for any fictional god that 'created' this Universe, but just to the whole of Existence, simply for my being alive in the Here and the Now. I feel my ego trampled and myself humbled, but at the same time there is something within me that feels a strange Oneness with all that starry splendor in front of me. I feel more grateful than ever before. I feel more alive than I have ever felt before! 💗
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