#cosmic scale

[miamaimania]

Space Shuttle Atlantis during solar transit (May 12, 2009) ⊙ NASA

[shambhavisingh01]

THE FREEDOM OF BEING A GLITCH

The universe is 13.8 billion years old.

It will outlast you by more time than you can imagine.

The mistake you made this morning

didn’t even register.

Not as a moment. Not as a ripple.

Isn’t that a relief?

We live like everything depends on us.

Like if we drop one thing one responsibility, one expectation

everything will fall apart.

We hold everything together.

The family. The work. The version of ourselves that never fails.

But none of it was ever that fragile.

You are not that important.

You are a brief arrangement of atoms on a moving rock in a space that doesn’t notice you.

The sky isn’t disappointed in you. The earth isn’t keeping score.

Nothing is watching closely enough to judge you.

And that’s the point.

Nothing matters.

Not in the way you were told it does.

So you don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be unforgettable. You don’t have to hold everything together.

You can fail.

You can stop.

You can exist without justifying it.

You are allowed to be small.

And for once

that doesn’t feel like a loss.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Humans do not rank above other animals, or below them. There is no cosmic scale of value, no great chain of being; no external standard by which the worth of a life can be judged.

from Feline Philosophy by John Gray 

[lobotomizedskull]

[mcnostril]

Just thinking about the sun.

[youneedone2]

Genesis by Marcus Sherman

[dumpableoffence]

Dumpable Offence

Keeps pointing out how, on a cosmic scale, their love for your you is tiny and will vanish in an instant.

[everythingaboutlife]

The Expanding Universe: What Lies Beyond Our Reach

Every moment, our tiny blue planet and its solar system race through the galaxy, spinning on its axis while the cosmos itself stretches ever wider. We live on a world that orbits a star hurtling around the Milky Way’s center at unimaginable speed. As we study the heavens, we confront humbling truths: we are a speck in a vast universe, our exploration has only just begun, and the question of alien…

The Expanding Universe: What Lies Beyond Our Reach