Perspective and the Bigger Picture
Can you see the pale blue dot within that brighter stripe on the right side of this picture?
Everyone you know, have ever known and will ever know, actually every living creature who has ever lived since the beginning of time - lived there. THAT is planet earth.
Zoomed in it looks more familiar:
This first photograph is called “Pale Blue Dot” and was taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers, as part of images of the Solar System.
In the photograph, Earth’s apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.(Source: Wikipedia).
To me this is the ultimate perspective:
when you zoom so far out that all the tiny problems and conflicts, all the bragging and the busyness vanish - you are left with nothing than the realization that we are in this all together surrounded by a giant amount of cold, dark, nothingness.
So we can either get our sh** together and get along with each other or try to make the best out of the cold, dark stuff out there.
