Thursday 15 July 2010

Significance

Out of 100 billion galaxies...
Existing in 100 billion star systems...
Out of 7 billion people...
You have your own unique genetic makeup...
Your thumbprint is yours alone...
You can create art, and write a song and are depended upon by others that love you.
You are enormously significant.

You often see a lot of posts emphasizing our insignificance in the universe, emphasizing how small each of us is. How incredibly small. I think about the enormity of the universe and, yeah, it makes me feel completely miniscule. There's a star called VY Canis Majoris; it's the largest known star and it's between 1,550,000,000 and 1,800,000,000 miles in diameter. That's enormous. Earth's diameter? 7,926 miles. That is tiny compared to canis Majoris. And you thought Earth was big. Feel small yet?

Ok, you feel small. And it's very very good to realise that sometimes. However, very rarely is the opposite highlighted.
You are the only one of you that there will ever be. You are wonderful and completely individual. One in a billion seven billion. You are incredibly, wonderfully significant. Don't you dare tell yourself otherwise.

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