Cosmological Perspective

This over-exposed photo was taken by an amateur photographer in New Zealand. It captures the journey of the Southern stars as they whizz through the night sky. Or does it?



The answer is no, not at all. What it actually captures is OUR movement. This photo highlights the fact that we are whizzing around on our axis at roughly 800mph. (In the UK at least. At the equator that speed increases to nearer 1000mph and at either of the poles Earth hardly spins at all.) Science, yo!

Now do you realise how tiny and insignificant you are? Your daily worries are -for the most part- entirely meaningless in the grand scheme of things. So keep things in perspective. Enjoy the fleeting moment of time you have miraculously been given to live on this big rock. It will be gone before you know it.

Here's something it took us years to figure out: Do something you enjoy and feel passionate about. Don’t exist to make money, you will regret that in the end. Wherever possible, try to make your goals contribute towards moving the Human agenda forward, if only in a microscopic way. (That’s all any individual can hope for.) Then AND ONLY THEN are you actually making any difference to anything.

Tea?