A while back, I read something about The Hubble Deep Field image. Sometimes I pay attention to astronomy and the likes, because I’m ever curious to really see whats out there. Sitting back and just losing myself in the stars above really fascinates me. Anyway, I came across this highres image of the Deep Field scan, and at first, it looks like any other picture of space. But you have to look deeper. What youre seeing isnt just a single star in the sky. Each dot is actually an entire galaxy. Each galaxay containing billions of stars, just like our sun, or gas giants, or white dwarfs, etc.. billions of them. in each dot.

I ask you to just think about that. We are but one little life form, on one little planet in one medium sized solar system, in one medium sized galaxy. That’s it. the size and expanse of how insignificant we are is incomprehensible. We can take a picture of BILLIONS of galaxies with uncountable stars and uncountable planets. How small minded and ignorant we are to think that WE are the highest form of life, or the most developed in existence. We are nothing more compared to existence as bacterium are compared to us. And that’s a big fucking stretch.

I found this video on Wimp.com, and I hope it works, because I’m gonan try and post the youtube link here. There’s something called redshift. and it basically determines the speed and distance an object emitting light is from us. Well, using the red-shift data and imposing it on the Deep Field image, we can place each galaxy in the image on a 3D map. very cool.

We are so small. So menial. But as of right now, this is all we’ve got. We fight, we blow each other up, we argue of such insignificant topics. why? for what reasons? I don’t understand this. People think that they’re going to die and go to this wondrous place with flowers and book, and infinite study. Gardens and waterfalls. They think they’re going to see their loved ones again or they think they’ll have the full understanding of the universe. I can’t say that they won’t, because I don’t know. But its my opinion that it’s all a farce. A make-believe land made up by our small minds. Something to justify dying and the unknown. That’s fine if you believe that your “soul” is going to fly up into the clouds. Go for it. I’m not stopping you. I do for the most part believe in some sort of “soul” ideology. why not? I tend to confuse people when I say that I’m atheist, yet I believe in ghosts and Souls.

I’m atheist in the fact that I do not believe there is a higher power that created all of this. I’m not agnostic, because I don’t believe that an undefined entity created this. I don’t really know how to explain why I believe in the concept of a soul, or the concept of ghosts, but I do. Maybe someday The words will come. Until then, I’ll spend my nights staring at the stars and wondering.

I really wish people would step out of themselves for a minute and just stop being so self absorbed. Just think for a second about how small we actually are and how little time we have. If this is life, and if This is all we’ve got.. then why are we spending this time hating and killing? Why do we hesitate to trust or love someone? What are we afraid of being hurt by? Is not taking a chance and being safe in your little bubble better than seeing anything and everything possible? It would take ten thousand lifetimes to see what this one planet has to offer, but we get caught up on fallacies like “he said” or “she said” so we spend our minutes hiding.

Stop hiding. Go live. Stop hating. Stop crying. Stop thinking you’re so high above everyone else that they have to EARN your respect. Just live.