Everything is so much closer nowadays. I remember when I was a kid, me and my dad use to play catch at the park together. We would throw the ball at the park for hours. I would scream to one side and he would holler back. We would get to distances as far 300 ft. I use to think that was really far away. I would take all the energy in my body to get the ball to him in the air. And we were communicating.
See, I thought that communicating to someone 300 ft. away from them was pretty good. I thought, I can communicate pretty far. But nowadays, I can sit in front of a screen, type a couple of words with a keyboard, press enter, and I have just communicated across the entire world in nanoseconds. Utterly baffling! I can communicate using a computer and the internet in less time than standing 300 ft. away from my dad and throwing the ball across that distance to him.
Now, 150 hundred years ago, you could have told an entire population that one day, there will be a way of talking to someone across the world just as quickly as you could holler to the nearest cabin from your cabin across the woods, and they would have laughed at you.
First of all, you would have probably had a difficult time explaining the roundness of Earth and the fact that it curves as you walk around it. Second, you would have probably had an even more difficult time getting them to see that you could take metal and put it together in all sorts of different ways which make lights appear. Your well trained alchemist would have been able to formulate an idea of what you were talking about, but the rest of the persons in those times would have told you that it had something to do with MAGIC and all sorts of wild things.
It takes lots of imagination in order to think up the society we live in today. It takes groups of people coming together and making lots of progress in the fields of science, mathematics, and so forth. When I was a kid playing catch with my dad, I imagined all sorts of things happening. Some of them did happen, and some of them didn't. But during the time from childhood to adulthood, I have seen a lot of things change, and the one thing I do know, is that you can never think too big. Whatever you can conceive as a possibility, can appear in the world around you.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Light the Path...
I use to wonder for hours how I was standing on this little planet in this little Solar system. I couldn't figure out how out of all the places in the universe, I found myself here. I use to wonder about that for hours. So then I began to actually start looking into it. Jumping into unknown territory seemed to be the only thing that made sense in life.
So, I began the search. The search led me into places I never thought I would find myself. Then I found something good. I learned something about the small planet I was on. I learned that it was one rock of twelve or so rocks floating around the big fireball in the sky. I also learned that some of the rocks had little rocks floating around them. The planet I am from has one rock floating around it.
The search continued. I learned that my body was made from little balls of energy. Those little balls of energy I guess have even smaller balls of energy which float around a common center. I think they call it a nucleus. All of this began to make me really think. When I look up in the sky I see one big ball of energy called the Sun, I see another ball of energy called the Moon, and finally the ball of energy I am standing on called Earth.
I began to think to myself, "what if the big balls of energy have something to do with the small balls of energy inside of my body?" This is a new thought to me. I had not had this thought in all the years I had been walking on the Earth and floating around the Sun. I had not once thought about the REALLY REALLY "SMALL" BALLS OF FIRE that were floating around inside my body, being connected to the REALLY REALLY "BIG" BALLS OF FIRE that I could see in the sky during the night time.
What is it about the stars that is so amazing? I find myself standing in awe of the vastness of the universe. The Solar System we live in is a child beginning its journey into the larger star systems in the sky. Earth is growing up too. But they are still just babies in the universe looking to find their way.
I am so proud of our Star in the sky. The Sun has brought so much goodness to all known life. It has given all of us the opportunity to stand and feel its strength and to look further into the depths of the universe. We can help our Star grow. We can participate in the game called life.
There is an abundance of ways for all of us to utilize better resources in order to create a more evolved planet. The first way that we can start is by recognizing that we are all floating on the same rock around the same BIG BALL OF FIRE called the SUN. This is our Star and this is our planet. The next thing we can do is to realize that the more we learn about the Big Balls of Fire in the sky, and the more we learn about the Small Balls of Fire inside of us, the more we will begin to understand how we possess so much more power than we have ever acknowledged. The final thing that we can do is to realize that MANKIND is a baby. We are all doing our best in spite of what things seem. Just like our Star is doing its best protecting the earth from getting pulled into the chaos of heavenly matters, earth does her best to protect us from the chaos of the other rocks floating in our solar system.
When these balls of energies floating in the solar system come near each other, different things happen with the solar system. It can get hotter or it can get colder, but things are always changing every moment. Every single one of those balls of energy is floating around that sun. Some go faster the earth, and others go slower. It is amazing that the Earth doesn't shake nearly as much as you would think, considering it is flying through the sky at about 30 km/second. Our solar system is doing a great job keeping things pretty balanced in here. The utter accuracy necessary is unfathomable, but thank goodness the Sun knows how to take care of business.
Thank goodness Earth doesn't let all sorts of trash get inside here. We should thank her for doing her best. And MANKIND, you should be proud. You have come along way through the last tens of thousand of years. MANKIND is holding its position on Earth, with the help of the Moon and its light, in SPACE and TIME (or earth cycles around the Sun, Moon cycles around the earth, Sun cycles around the GALAXY, etc.)
Anyway, I am glad that the SUN lights a daily path for me to wake up into everyday. I am so thankful that the Sun comes out on everyday to take care of business and keep the temperatures balanced here.
There is so much more to the story, but this is how it started...
So, I began the search. The search led me into places I never thought I would find myself. Then I found something good. I learned something about the small planet I was on. I learned that it was one rock of twelve or so rocks floating around the big fireball in the sky. I also learned that some of the rocks had little rocks floating around them. The planet I am from has one rock floating around it.
The search continued. I learned that my body was made from little balls of energy. Those little balls of energy I guess have even smaller balls of energy which float around a common center. I think they call it a nucleus. All of this began to make me really think. When I look up in the sky I see one big ball of energy called the Sun, I see another ball of energy called the Moon, and finally the ball of energy I am standing on called Earth.
I began to think to myself, "what if the big balls of energy have something to do with the small balls of energy inside of my body?" This is a new thought to me. I had not had this thought in all the years I had been walking on the Earth and floating around the Sun. I had not once thought about the REALLY REALLY "SMALL" BALLS OF FIRE that were floating around inside my body, being connected to the REALLY REALLY "BIG" BALLS OF FIRE that I could see in the sky during the night time.
What is it about the stars that is so amazing? I find myself standing in awe of the vastness of the universe. The Solar System we live in is a child beginning its journey into the larger star systems in the sky. Earth is growing up too. But they are still just babies in the universe looking to find their way.
I am so proud of our Star in the sky. The Sun has brought so much goodness to all known life. It has given all of us the opportunity to stand and feel its strength and to look further into the depths of the universe. We can help our Star grow. We can participate in the game called life.
There is an abundance of ways for all of us to utilize better resources in order to create a more evolved planet. The first way that we can start is by recognizing that we are all floating on the same rock around the same BIG BALL OF FIRE called the SUN. This is our Star and this is our planet. The next thing we can do is to realize that the more we learn about the Big Balls of Fire in the sky, and the more we learn about the Small Balls of Fire inside of us, the more we will begin to understand how we possess so much more power than we have ever acknowledged. The final thing that we can do is to realize that MANKIND is a baby. We are all doing our best in spite of what things seem. Just like our Star is doing its best protecting the earth from getting pulled into the chaos of heavenly matters, earth does her best to protect us from the chaos of the other rocks floating in our solar system.
When these balls of energies floating in the solar system come near each other, different things happen with the solar system. It can get hotter or it can get colder, but things are always changing every moment. Every single one of those balls of energy is floating around that sun. Some go faster the earth, and others go slower. It is amazing that the Earth doesn't shake nearly as much as you would think, considering it is flying through the sky at about 30 km/second. Our solar system is doing a great job keeping things pretty balanced in here. The utter accuracy necessary is unfathomable, but thank goodness the Sun knows how to take care of business.
Thank goodness Earth doesn't let all sorts of trash get inside here. We should thank her for doing her best. And MANKIND, you should be proud. You have come along way through the last tens of thousand of years. MANKIND is holding its position on Earth, with the help of the Moon and its light, in SPACE and TIME (or earth cycles around the Sun, Moon cycles around the earth, Sun cycles around the GALAXY, etc.)
Anyway, I am glad that the SUN lights a daily path for me to wake up into everyday. I am so thankful that the Sun comes out on everyday to take care of business and keep the temperatures balanced here.
There is so much more to the story, but this is how it started...
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