the macroscopic view of things
This evening, as I walked home from Hillview Heights to Dairy Farm after swimming (and trying to suntan unsuccessfully), I realised that all too often, when we walk around all the time, we're either looking at the ground, slightly ahead, the traffic lights, the cars, signposts etc.
But when was the last time we actually looked and gazed at the sky for longer than a few seconds? When was the last time we actually observed the trees, the birds flying amongst the clouds, the occasionally falling leaves, the dried leaves among the grass, the fallen flowers, the occasional butterflies flitting from bush to bush and different shapes of the trees?
As I looked at the sky this evening, it was so blue, such a lovely tinge of blue, and the clouds were not the regular fluffy ones, but rather, white streaks splashed across the sky, like splashes of white paint melting and merging into a watery blue gradient. So beautiful! Just like how the sky this morning was tinged such a lovely rosy, lavender colour, and the clouds either amber, vermillion or purple.
And as I gazed at the sky (yes, several cars honked at me when I was crossing the road), I felt a great sense of distance, that the longer I stared at the sky, the further it was extending, higher and higher and higher up, up into the reaches of the universe that we're in. Up into that mysterious black space. And I felt infinitely small, just a tiny little part of this amazing creation and clockwork. And for some reason, I just felt so tranquil, to be part of Nature, to merge with Nature.
We are all part of Nature, belonging to the cycle of Life that never ceases. But all too often we humans get so caught up in our own microscopic world and concerns that we forget our origin -- Nature. We forget that all the worries / troubles / concerns / hectic details of daily life, are but a tiny molecule of water in the great ocean that's life, that's Earth, that's Nature.
Skepticism (ok, leftover discussion from KI) or not? It doesn't matter. Why do you need absolute truth or genuine knowledge? It's sufficient to know that you're a product of Nature, a small link in the cycle of Life, from the species Homo Sapiens that's part of the Apes family, that's part of the fauna on Earth, which is in turn a planet orbiting around the Sun in a solar system, in a galaxy called the Milky Way which is just another one of the zillions of galaxies that exist in the Universe.
But it doesn't matter how big / small / significant / insignificant you are. What matters is that you're given this chance to explore the wonderful big world you're born into, and to enjoy your journey in exploring -- enjoying your life by living it out to how you want it to be.
But when was the last time we actually looked and gazed at the sky for longer than a few seconds? When was the last time we actually observed the trees, the birds flying amongst the clouds, the occasionally falling leaves, the dried leaves among the grass, the fallen flowers, the occasional butterflies flitting from bush to bush and different shapes of the trees?
As I looked at the sky this evening, it was so blue, such a lovely tinge of blue, and the clouds were not the regular fluffy ones, but rather, white streaks splashed across the sky, like splashes of white paint melting and merging into a watery blue gradient. So beautiful! Just like how the sky this morning was tinged such a lovely rosy, lavender colour, and the clouds either amber, vermillion or purple.
And as I gazed at the sky (yes, several cars honked at me when I was crossing the road), I felt a great sense of distance, that the longer I stared at the sky, the further it was extending, higher and higher and higher up, up into the reaches of the universe that we're in. Up into that mysterious black space. And I felt infinitely small, just a tiny little part of this amazing creation and clockwork. And for some reason, I just felt so tranquil, to be part of Nature, to merge with Nature.
We are all part of Nature, belonging to the cycle of Life that never ceases. But all too often we humans get so caught up in our own microscopic world and concerns that we forget our origin -- Nature. We forget that all the worries / troubles / concerns / hectic details of daily life, are but a tiny molecule of water in the great ocean that's life, that's Earth, that's Nature.
Skepticism (ok, leftover discussion from KI) or not? It doesn't matter. Why do you need absolute truth or genuine knowledge? It's sufficient to know that you're a product of Nature, a small link in the cycle of Life, from the species Homo Sapiens that's part of the Apes family, that's part of the fauna on Earth, which is in turn a planet orbiting around the Sun in a solar system, in a galaxy called the Milky Way which is just another one of the zillions of galaxies that exist in the Universe.
But it doesn't matter how big / small / significant / insignificant you are. What matters is that you're given this chance to explore the wonderful big world you're born into, and to enjoy your journey in exploring -- enjoying your life by living it out to how you want it to be.
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