Sometimes I envy what appear to be more interesting parts of the universe.
That image evokes all those feelings.
Then I remember interesting probably = bad, and we may not be living to appreciate it all.
That image evokes all those feelings.
Then I remember interesting probably = bad, and we may not be living to appreciate it all.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
I mean, you can see every place on this planet within a few seconds if you are taking a look at some satellite photo and yet you would not have seen your house and the living beings around it. Similarly, there are many more details which we do not perceive in our everyday life and which you can explore without have to invent a couple of scientific miracles ;-)
It is not that I don't value the stars. It is just that I think we shouldn't dream of arriving at some wonderful planet one day when we already are on a wonderful planet. We just don't appreciate it like that.
We do live in an amazing place.
You might need eyes the size of a satellite dish to see them all though.
In a very shallow, simplistic sense, we see all these other amazing phenomena out there. Our home seems like a little rural backwater, crossroads and a store kind of thing, by comparison.