Begin of blog song: My Rollercoaster- Kimya Dawnson
Take a second for yourself, just sit down and breath. Feel the seat beneath you, feel the air entering your lungs, hear the sounds around you. No not the man-made sounds of the t.v or the hum of the electricity, but the different sounds, the sounds that you so easily block out. Just take a second and think about nothing, don't think about anything. Just let the comfort and serenity of today wash over you.
Do you see it? How easy it is to disconnect yourself from outside forces, how easy it is to make everything disappear? Have you ever taken a moment to think of how easy it would be for you to disappear?
You do not see the dust particles around you, does that mean that they're not there? No, it just means that they are insignificant to you, they do not exist to you. Imagine yourself in a crowd of ten people, now one hundred, a thousand, a million. Imagine yourself as simply one person in this world, there are about seven billion people on this Earth to date, imagine yourself as just one of them. You are now 1/7billion, you are now insignificant, and yet, that's not the end of it. Out of these 7billion. there is about 20000 with the same eye colour as you, 15000 with the same last name as you, let's say 30000 with the same birthday. 3500000 with the same interests, 500000 with the same talents, 800000 with the same beliefs and opinions. You are now less significant than dust, everyone on Earth is aware of dust, even if they don't immediately think about it, no one is aware of you.
Now think of Earth, your world, my world, our world. Think of it in comparison to all the planets, now the milky way. The milky way is only one galaxy, according to scientist there is so much more out there. The universe, even though it is the biggest thing out there, since ever, it just keeps expanding. Meteors? They're partially made out of dust/dirt, correct? That now makes dirt/dust, not just more significant than yourself, but the whole human race.
In our own rights, we all insignificant, no matter what. Even the greatest of us mean nothing to someone, and yet, even the smallest most insignificant of us means the world to someone else. Insignificance is simply a matter of perspective. My perspective from behind this computer screen, is that if either one of you who are reading this or who are not, were to drop dead this second, I wouldn't realize it, I wouldn't care, I would not notice. And yet, somehow through some sort of cosmic force, if I were to get a phone call and during that call I was told that that person who just a second ago was not even a thought in my mind, that person who I just described to be insignificant to me has passed away, that they were my family, or friend, or even a passing acquaintance what does that then mean?
The point, although I think the way I tried to lead up to it was a bit shaky, and unclear, is. Yes, you are insignificant to someone, less of a thought than the particles of dust floating in the air, but to someone else, to your mum, or sister, or father, friend, cousin, crush, boy/girlfriend. You are EXTREMELY important, and they love and care for you. You are NOT insignificant, and you are NOT alone.
I understand that this is a long post, and serious, I also understand that most of you have given up reading this from the time I started listing random/made up statistics and numbers. However, to those of you that have stuck around to see the point behind this ramble, thank you.
End of blog song: Pretty Girl- Sugarcult
