In my opinion, there are too many people on this earth that think that the whole Universe revolves around them. I’m not trying to be mean or rude, but it’s the truth. It’s human nature to think that everything around us was indeed, made just for us. There’s an image that I think everyone on this Earth should see, and should really, really think about. Here it is:

That dot, that minuscule pixel in the image, is earth.

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you have ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” ~ Carl Sagan

Just reading Sagan’s words blows my mind. Here we are, sitting on this massive chunk of rock, and we think that we run the show. I think the world would be a better place if people wouldn’t take things so seriously. If someone does something to someone else, or something bad happens in their life, who cares? In the ‘big picture’, these things happening are so tiny, so totally overlookable that it’s like they’ve never happened.

The size of our planet, in comparison to the rest of the Universe, is so small, so close to zero, that it can be accepted as such. What does that make us? A figment of some higher power’s imagination? A tiny speck of dust upon another tiny speck of dust, so insignificant that it’s like we don’t even exist? Everyone needs to think about this. Now, once you’re really wrapped your mind around life as we know it, put your problems in perspective: not so bad, right?

I think that the key to true happiness and enjoyment of life is to simply put yourself in perspective. Looking at the size and magnitude of the Universe, and then comparing your own size to it is really humbling. It really puts life in perspective, and you realize that you are the one in charge of your own life, and it’s up to you to decide what that means.