Do u realize how small we are?

Question

space is infinite
were only one galaxy
each star could be another galaxy for all we know
this bothers me everyday
how insignificant we are

i was just wondering if it bothered anyone else

Answer 1

Isn't it incredible how small we are but people think we are so"big"?
We are on one small planet, in one small galaxy. Who knows what's beyond the galaxy and then beyond that and beyond that. Who knows how many galaxies there are - there could be an infinite number of planets with some sort of life that human kind has not yet found - and maybe never will.
Just compare the span of human life on this planet to the timespan of any other life before. Look at the Dinosaurs - they've been here longer than we have. Doesn't that make us small and insignificant?

Answer 2

Yes, i know i am 5' 11". Lol if space was infinite, you couldn't prove it was infinite, and so then you can say for certain space is infinite :P It may just be BIG. 1 star =/= another galaxy lol. They know where a lot of those stars are located in the galaxy. There are even suns hundreds of times bigger than our's. honestly. WHY DOES IT BOTHER YOU? Would you rather big a gigantic sun? Pftt, you won't be able to see anythign or think, or be concious, ect. WHY should you be some majorly important thing? Can you not handle being what you think to be insignificant? What if we are the MOST significant thing in the universe? A planet or sun can't see anything, or hear anything, or feel anything, or smell anything, or taste anything, or observe anything. Perhaps we are the universe's way of experiencing itself. To observe and be part of it. Honestly there are so many perspectives to everything -.-

"The magic of life is in the fact that every littlest thing,
both in and around you, expresses, and in action uses,
the same power that hurls the stars through space and causes their fire; that bellows in thunder and whispers in wind; that produces a giant tree from the microscopic germ of a seed and wears away mountains to thin clouds of dust."
(Alan Watts)

Answer 3

ever headr the song "we are all made of stars" by Moby?

it have been proven that each of us, are actually made of stars dust. Partially at least.
I don't know the specifics, but I'm sure you can look it up on Wikipedia or something.

I have realised this, but then I just remember that everything out there is a part of us, and we are a part of it.

we may be insignificant, but then, so is everything else.
does anything really matter in the end?

then again, we could be the most important things in this whole universe, because if we weren't here to observe it, and question it, who would? It would be as though it didn't even exist.

Answer 4

I realized how small I was when my 3 children grew taller than me. [I'm 5'5 and 1/2''] My daughter grew up taller first because she is the oldest [24 yrs old], then our first son grew tallest. 2 days before our first son passed away, I called my two boys out to the kitchen to measure them both, and Marcus, [our younger son] faced the fridge and my older son, Tayler, stood back to back with Marcus, and Tayler bent his knees while laughing. I stood back and could see that Tayler was the taller of the 2. That was the last fun memory I had before Tayler passed away - 2 days later. 6 months later I said to marcus, ''you have grown 3 more inches and now you're as tall as Tayler was'.' He said he was as tall as Tayler before he died...yet he did not realize that Tayler was cheating because he had bent his knees. Now Marcus is 6' tall. And I feel size small. I call him a giraffe, but not to his face though. Anyway, as I am writing this, I am listening to a song by a Group named Kansas [from the 70's]...it's called ''Dust in the Wind'' and it says pretty much what you have said. The lyrics are as follows:

Dust in the Wind
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I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.

Answer 5

Yes Indeed

Answer 6

It doesn't bother me because we're all God's children. Yes we're small compared to the universe, but we're sons (or daughters) in God's eyes.

Answer 7

Like the song goes~ just dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.
Who knows maybe someone, something, somewhere is observing us.

Answer 8

Yes, we are but a spec of dust in the universe, but it doesn't bother me at all.

Answer 9

ensure your life is significant, then you won't feel insignificant.

Answer 10

...and how big we can be !!!