Friday, October 5, 2012

smallness

As y'all know, I had been thinking about dumb stuff earlier this week, and though my thoughts got a little healthier and more positive, I began to grasp just how small we all really are.

We're tiny, you know. I am me. In my room, in my home, in my apartment complex, in my neighborhood, in my city, in my county, etc. etc. There are people above me, people below me. Next to me. Beside me. I drive with so many different strangers on a daily basis, and we might never ever speak words to each other. I might appear in random dreams here and there, as a random person in the background, a familiar face yet so unknown.

Today I learned that seashells are merely skeleton remains of mollusks that, well, once lived. Like seriously, do you know how many mollusks must die every day for us to so casually encounter countless shells on the shore? Remember Coney Island? So many shells. So many small remains. At least some shells are still useful for living creatures, like hermit crabs or whatever. Or for those looking for supposedly aesthetically pleasing and natural souvenirs.

We step on these shells, never giving them a second thought.

We are small. Imagine how much smaller we'd be if we were mollusks. I recently read an article arguing that we are made of so many tiny tiny particles, that we are very complex organisms. My sister once quipped that we are actually made of dead star particles. I like that idea...

Yes, I am small, but it's okay. I like this sliver of space I take up in the universe. I like to think that my existence is worth something, a necessary and essential part that makes the universe continue. And that those I love exist for the same reason.

In all my thoughts and wanderings, I think it's time to share a tiny whale picture:

(courtesy of su-ami)
Dear readers, I like y'all by the way. Have a good weekend my dears. :)

8 comments:

  1. ..just keep on writing like this..keep on posting like this..then you will realize that you are worth something..even after you no longer live in the flesh..your words will speak.. :)

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    1. Your kind words reinforce my newfound motivation. Thank you very much! :)

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  2. we're all a bunch of dusts floating in space...
    ... and yet we are still part of something bigger... :)

    (following you now via GFC, hope you follow me back ^^)

    and oh, I hope you'd join my blog link exchange. :)

    www.psychochicklessons.blogspot.com
    http://officiallygirlyfied.blogspot.com/p/blog-link-exchange.html

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    1. Hi Samantha! I just visited your blog and it's funny and interesting! I will totally link up with your blog link exchange---as soon as I change a few things (format-wise) on my blog (should be by the end of the week! Nice to meet you :)

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  3. That was profound and gave me a chance to think I honestly don't need to do any more of that I think so much I'm constantly all over the shop. I love your blog I would have never found it had it not been for your answer on my topic on whether you blog for you or not on 20s blogger. Deliciously Happy

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    1. Hi Jordan, it's very nice to meet you! I ventured to your blog and I love it! Your words are very motivational and honest, I can't wait to read more :)

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  4. Wow! After a difficult week, that post really touched me. Thank you; I followed you here from 20SB by the way :o)

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    1. Nice to meet you Nikki! :) I'm glad this post was here for you---we've all had those tough weeks and moments and it's always good to know we can all rely on each other as a human race.

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