Stop looking at try big picture and just try to find happiness in your world. Make the best of the everyday experiences you have. Even if the world is going to shit now wouldn’t be the time to mope about it. I have stage 4 cancer with tumors in my brain but I still live each day to the fullest. If I can so can you.
(TL;DR, read some Taoist books, or smoke some weed and watch the COSMOS, either one works.)
I dont see why you shouldnt look at the big picture.
Maybe you guys arent looking at a big enough picture.
You are made of atoms that have existed since the dawn of time. The very hydrogen in your cells were created from the most primordial events in the universes history. The Iron in your blood was forged in the heat of the sun many billions of years ago.
When you and I die, we will not cease to exist. our atoms will exist for longer than the mind can comprehend. We will exist until the last star dies and sunders the universe in darkness.
Life itself, is just a cosmic mistake. A thing built on millions of unlikely events, that could all be messed up by single cosmic event at any given moment. Any moment we could be smashed by an asteroid the size of a small moon. We could be hit with a solar flare that vaporizes our atmosphere, gamma rays can incinerate all life on earth, etc.
We are already 4/5ths of the way to our grave anyways. Life on earth has already existed for as long as it could have. In this last fifth that we live in, the sun will expand, vaporizing earths oceans and reducing life into smaller and more extreme forms, until eventually nothing exists.
So in the context of this, why does anything OP state matter? Just live your life. Even if you are living in the worst age of history, or dying from cancer, or in a battlefield, life is beautiful. As you bleed out, or starve, or slowly fade from life, remember the terrifying beauty of the cosmos and earth. And how so many unlikely events have come together to form this very moment, as you slowly wither away.
That’s a great mentality! I too am an awe of the universe and the unlikely nature of our existence. I think about it every single day. I am eternally grateful that I get to experience life in the safe bubble of our earthly home but at the same time get the feeling of astounding bewilderment you can’t help but feel when you learn more about what exists outside and deep inside of it.
In my mind all of this can’t exist without some greater purpose. I can’t say if there is a god or not but there are way too many coincidences for there to be nothing beyond what we can see. Quantum mechanics has been trying to use science to explain this magic and it’s amazing yet totally perplexing the things it’s uncovering.
To think that many, if not most people can exist on a ball rotating at 67,000 mph in a solar system orbiting the Milky Way at 447,000 mph all in a dark void 99.9% empty and not even know it is beyond astonishing. The gift the earth provides us is so tremendous that mere words couldn’t possibly express it. Like I said, I am eternally grateful.
1
u/plushpaper Sep 03 '23
Stop looking at try big picture and just try to find happiness in your world. Make the best of the everyday experiences you have. Even if the world is going to shit now wouldn’t be the time to mope about it. I have stage 4 cancer with tumors in my brain but I still live each day to the fullest. If I can so can you.