May 31, 2012

Have you ever really looked at the sky?

Have you ever just looked at the clouds in the sky? I mean - really looked at them?

We tend to see the world around us with such tunnel vision, plagued by questions as mundane and meaningless as, "Will I have enough time to get to that meeting?" or, "Oh God. What's going to be for supper tonight?" We get so caught up in these daily facets of life that we often fail to realize the more interesting things around us.

Looking at the clouds, you notice a few things: they're all different shapes and sizes, they look small but they're actually ridiculously big, the sky is ridiculously bigger even than the clouds, and you realize just how small you are in the world.

We can sit there and say we're one person into seven billion, we can say we're one of millions in our respective cities, but when you really look at the sky or anything you don't normally notice you get a scale of just how impossibly vast that is and a sense of wonder and awe at all there is in this large and interesting world of ours.

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