Blessed!

When was the last time you felt fed up with life challenges, betrayal, tumbling and falling down, weak and tired from fighting your life through? Have you looked to the sky and cried? Were you out of options and felt no way out? .. Here are some thoughts that will help you through every time you face this again …

The Wisdom of Looking to the sky

Have you ever reflected on how small we are? and How big is the universe? Here are some facts that we all need to know and reflect upon every time we need to look at the sky:

1. An average human being would weigh let’s say 80 KG, and would measure around 180 cm tall.
2. Earth’s radius is 6,371 KM, and weighs around 6,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 kilograms (6 x 10(power 24) kilograms) (Man compared to earth is 1.3333333333333333333333333333333 e-23) (In simple English, 23 zeros before you write a 1, after the comma … to the lay person: almost nothing)!
3. According to NASA, the sun that we see every day, our own sun is as big as about 1.3 million Earths (Please see the picture below)
4. Our Earth, and Sun are together in a galaxy called “The Milky Way”. Now this huge sun that we see is one of at least 100 BILLION stars, just in the Milky Way only.
5. NASA scientists confirm that there are at least 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. They also confirm that there are more stars than grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches combined.
6. To cross the Milky way alone, at the speed of light, we need 100,000 years of travel, as estimated by NASA. How about the other galaxies?

Let’s now put all of this information together, shall we? Here is a summary:

Now … look at the last picture on the bottom right … can you locate our galaxy? can you see the sun? can you see earth? Now, can you see yourself? Can you think of what is troubling you? .. The fact is .. We are Nothing, but in the same time Everything!

Have you ever thought of who created this massively undiscovered space? How small are we in this huge universe, that we know so little about, despite the thousands of years we have spent researching and exploring it? The mighty power behind this amazing order and the unmatched engineering behind it? … So what’s the point?

Realizing how small we are, and how huge is the power of our creator is probably the first thing we need to think about whenever we are desperate and look into the sky … You know what? If we are so tiny and weak, it is so easy for us to be hurt, and even demolished by any of the massive masses around us, but since we are allowed to stay, to live and fight our lives through, then there is a great blessing surrounding us everywhere .. Human beings, and earth, are so vulnerable .. we can be washed out of existence in no time, if we were not protected and blessed by a great power that keeps life as we know it existing ..

So if we were blessed, protected and loved .. why do some of us have to go through pain? Why do some people have to fall really sick? Why do some people have to die young? Many questions like those, right? .. Let’s look into the theories of relativity and visual illusions to reach an answer then …

The majority of people at first sight will think that the orange circle on the right is larger than the orange circle on the left, right? Simply because our human eye and our brain is adjusted to see things in relative, rather than absolute measures ..

Now, when we reflect this on life, in order to see it objectively, we need pain to understand relief, we need black to know white, we need death to appreciate life .. we need that contrast, otherwise our brains will not recognize the “Good feeling”. .. Got the idea?

So the point is not to hate pain, but to look at the wisdom behind it .. not to fight back the mighty power behind destiny, but to appreciate it and try to live life through ..

Next time you look to the sky … reflect on how tiny and vulnerable we are … take a deep breath .. believe that the creator behind the whole universe didn’t create you to suffer .. there is a certain experience each one of us has to go through in order to appreciate what they have .. Feel the wisdom from within … feel the great power behind it .. feel life … Feel Blessed……

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Engagement Expert, International Speaker & Pragmatic researcher