[skinney6]

We are insignificant and meaningless. Just look at that data. We live on a planet that's billions of years old in a solar system that's probably even older. Currently each one of us is but one of almost 8 billion others currently alive right now. One day you will die with millions of others. Not long after that anyone that has a memory of you will die. You will be completely erased.

You can see that as depressing if you want. I see it a liberating. Accept your current experience for what it is. Not what your silly little mind thinks it _should_ be. When you do that there is no room for discontent, only happiness, peace and contentment. Live life for what it is; a beautiful dream.

[notapenny]

I started reading about the universe and everything in it sometime last year. I was in a shit place due to some stuff in our family, but I found it liberating as well, to think about how small we are in the scale of things or against the time scale of things. Besides it being a cool new hobby, it really sobered me up on what's important to me.