Cosmic Perspective

Old debunked theories displaying our delusions that our being is superior above all else or that the universe revolves our planet exhibits how self-absorbed and delusional we are despite of our superior intellect over every other species that walked, crawled or slithered on Earth.

The book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil DeGrasse Tyson¹, gave me, however brief, but deep insight into the secrets of the universe. At the face of the vast and ever-expanding universe, we are simply just a tiny spec of life that started from a single-celled organism and into curious Homo Sapiens. There might be others that live and breath similar to us in our neighboring galaxies with their own unique exoplanet and probably a bigger Sun they revolved around on.

Theories such as panspermia suggests, we may not even originated from Earth. There are evidences that comet debris, upon impact, can ricochet into adjacent planets, transporting native microscopic extremophiles that can survive extreme conditions, even that of an alien atmosphere. After all, there are more planets in the universe that can cultivate life just as on Earth than we can imagine.

Are we just an accident that happened billions of years after #the big bang? Are we alone in the universe, or are there extraterrestrial beings with more advanced technology eavesdropping us in secret? However the answer to these existential questions, it is wise to to meditate upon that our existence isn’t so unique and superior than we think of ourselves after all, that our modern ways may have been history to some other advanced civilizations ahead of us.

We are comprised of the most chemically active elements in the universe that forms life. As Neil DeGrasse Tyson puts it, “We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.” An evidence that we are special, not because who we are or what we do, but because we are one with the universe, significantly insignificant.