Me and the World

Hey, YOU!

It's Friday, everyone! For some this means weekend is near, others it means the week has just begun, and for some, it might just feel like any other day. Wherever you are, out there, I hope you will enjoy your day, have enjoyed your week, and are enjoying your life!

Something struck me the other day: it's August 19th. Do you realize that, my friends, we are 3/4s finished with the year? That means that another year, another 365 and 1/4 days are almost, yet again, behind us. Now I don't know about you, but I feel.... hungry. But, aside from that, I feel like in all my thirteen years, I haven't done much. I haven't gone to outer space and lived to tell the day. I haven't thrown caution to the wind and climbed to the top of Mt. Everest. Heck, I haven't even seen the world's biggest ball of yarn! What have I, Alexis Szoke, done? What influence have I made on this big world?

You know I've never really thought about it, how small we are. Not in the sense of how much we matter to everyone else, but how small our individual, physical body is. I mean think of how many people fit on this earth and cohabitate together. I don't know exacts, but I'm pretty sure that that's a lot of fingers. Think of the value of one person over another. How can one person have a bigger value than another when, in retrospect, we are all pretty much the same? We all start off as a small speck in the universe and, to be honest, that doesn't change though out your whole life. No matter what you do, how many people you influence, or not, we all are just specks. Perspective.

So for as small as we are, why is it that our problems seem to be so dang big? I mean, "in the history of the universe".... really? Are they really that big? Please tell me how- for as small as one person may be- your, mine, their problem is really any bigger than anything else. The substantuality of any one thing that happens in our own worlds is not "just the way it is"- we make things as big, or as small as it is to us, in our own worlds. But, when we stop getting so sucked into our own worlds, and take a step out into THE WORLD, we would see how tiny our own problems and our own world is.  Perspective. *MMS...

We catch glimpses of this other world (aside from our own) from time to time, but to actually live in this space of not yours, not theirs, but just the world, you would be living for something so much bigger than you and me. And that, in my mind, is how to live.* Then, living your life by how many days, weeks, years will no longer matter. What you "have done" is no longer relevant to what the world has done with you. Your influence is not measured by how many people you have graced, but not at all. Perspective.

"Whether single events or processes that take weeks, months, or years, these experiences remind us that the world remains a magical place."

Keep a Perspective Mind,
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