How to feel insignificant

Look at the stars. Look at the red spot on Jupiter through a telescope. Realize how far away that is. Realize how far away and how that planet has no idea of my existence. Or anyone’s existence. Then expand that though process outward. There are trillions of planets and stars that exist that don’t know about me and I that I don’t know about. Then take that thinking into time. Think about all the planets and stars that have existed before my time and will exist after I’m gone. It’s not even a drop in the bucket. It’s bigger and more lonely than that.

Now take this thinking too far and it becomes a problem. But I guess we get to decide what matters for the short time we’re around. That’s freeing. That’s using insignificance for a good cause.