As described by Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot our entire world (everyone and everything we have or will ever know) is merely a small pale dot. When you think of this many people are sad or feel lost in a mass of things that now seem to mean nothing.
I, on the other hand, have seen of late that there are important things to use this knowledge to accept.
I have seen families and even countries ripped apart by what we think of as all important. Yet these arguments, while affecting us, are of so little consequence in the grander scheme of things that the rest of the world may not care at all, let alone the rest of the universe. In 10 years will you care about an argument with your loved one? Will you remember? Will the discomfort of sitting down and talking about it be important to you when you think of the small dot that a probe on the outermost part of our solar system would see of us as?
For the ones that have hatred for others lifestyles and partnerships, think of how tiny those people are in the scheme of things, how little their choice is effecting your universal dot. Their life and choices are not sending our Blue orb spinning out of the Galaxy, or winking it out of existence.
For those that have been hurt by those they loved and but not been able to end the cycle, think of those billions of people on that insignificant dot. You are one of them, precious as every one of them, fragile and small. But think of the millions of other people on the planet that can care for you as you deserve, they are there to love you without the use of pain, fear, or control. They are there to treat you as you should be treated. The one that is causing your pain is not even a blip on the small dot that is your world when seen from above.
These things being acknowledged are not to make people feel as though their personal problems are not important, but to give you a perspective when you are at a point of reasoning out what to do about them. If it is a petty argument it changes nothing in the long term plan if you no longer talk with someone, but would your personal life be richer if you still had the option? If you disagree with a lifestyle why bother with arguing about it? Your words, impassioned as they may be, will be lost in the sands of time making no difference in the movement of the cosmos. So relax and ignore those things you do not wish to be involved in. For those in what seems like a hopeless painful relationship, remember that the one that causes the pain is no more than speck of dust in the galaxy and will burn out in so short a time that they are insignificant to the outside onlooker. However there are millions of others out there that will or do love you in a way that you deserve whether you know it or not.
So personally I am going to stretch out only tiny section of this Pale Blue Dot, and revel in all it has to offer. I am going to try to remember when others make me mad that this moment too will pass and be forgotten, and instead try to enjoy my time here.
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