The Reason To Stop Worrying on This Mud Ball

You Are Here...

I light up my cigar, pour a scotch - and watch the Earthrise - 50 x 40 Cm

Let Me Count The Ways

You are here somewhere I can't see you. It's too far away but you're here somewhere.
Maybe here . . . . maybe here.
You could be almost anywhere here - but you're definitely here.
You don't know why, or for what. Nobody else does, either.

All you know all I know is that you are somewhere here magnetized to the strange lushly coated wet rock floating in its designated position of endless nothing and this rock you are on - it's tiny and you are tiny compared to this rock, so tiny that if we zoom out a little bit look how tiny you are - even further - tinier - you're so tiny you're even tiny your brain can't comprehend how tiny you are your tiny self is posted up on this tiny rock surrounded by this dark massive unending vastness that could be anything and nothing.

At the same time this rock will give you life.
It will give you everything you need, to live on its crust for a period of time, it might feel like a while or it might feel like no time at all depending on what mood you're in when you consider this idea.

Regardless of how it feels to you when compared to almost everything else it will be so so short - a single frame in a movie that never ends.

And YOU are IN That Frame

A frame that could be removed and nothing would really change about the movie.
In this frame you will live on this rock then you will die and you'll have no idea what happened.
No one will.
If you're really lucky, you'll have some friends and family and lovers who will be sad for a little while. They'll miss you but they'll try really hard not to because being sad and missing someone all the time it's really tiresome.

It'll mess up their lives so they'll try to work through it and move on as best they can. They might go to therapy. They might practice techniques to get through grieving. They'll probably be somewhat successful.
They will also die

If you're even more unusually lucky, you'll be missed and remembered for a little bit longer by a few more people.
Perhaps you did something that impacted more people while you lived on this rock.
Perhaps you were profoundly artistic.
Or smart.
Or a leader.
Or an inventor.
When you die perhaps more people will be sad for a little longer stretch of time.
Most of these people would have never really known you though, so they won't think about you too much for too long either.

And when they do, it'll mostly be a misconstruction of you based on their own ideals.

They Will All Die Over Time

Every person - every memory of a person will all die with each other
Won't matter to you to mean to anyone
We'll all be dead. The things you did.
The words you said. The impacts you made for good or for bad.
Big or small they will all lose your nametag and will not matter to anyone or anything - so whatever you're nervous about right now ??
whoever you're nervous because of perhaps a first date, a job interview, a big presentation, an important test, a hard conversation . . .

You might feel paralyzed with anxiety.
You might feel like the course of your life is hinged on this coming moment - that the fate of Reality is on YOUR shoulders.

It's not.

You might be worried that you're going to do the wrong thing, or fail.
You might.
But, everything will be okay - because for some reason - against all conceivable odds, you're on this weird rock...

This Planet that Births Life

Life that births more Life. Novel Life. Intelligent Life

You in this unknowable vacuum of potential nihility - you have this playground this - consciousness - this capacity for wonder, emotion and thought.

The only real mistake you can make is to NOT RECOGNISE this.

To never relax and enjoy the hilarious and enthralling absurdity of it all.
To realize that it all means nothing beyond itself -
And to find freedom and inspiration in this thought.

To explore and connect with what it can mean to be a you on a rock in a solar system in a galaxy in a universe in a who knows what . . .

to be kind and decent to have fun to love to laugh to cry to try to fail to live and to remember that no matter whatever happens you can still do all of this

No matter what you do in life - worst case is you try your best you, you be yourself and you do what you can do with compassion, honesty, effort and understanding and it goes worst case and then you move on like everything else.

Experience life with clarity and Wonder

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