A Unique Way to Help You Stop Worrying About Your Problems
We are utterly insignificant
I sink into my chair, brain fried, and look at the 50+ chrome tabs in despair. “I’m so done with this!”, I growl, destroy the tabs and slam shut my laptop’s lid. Who would’ve thought that planning and making a few investments would be this tedious?
As I swivel around in my chair, my phone flashes a Whatsapp message, “Bro, prepared for the exam?”
“Wait, what exam?”, I wonder and check the date. Sure enough, I had forgotten about my math exam. Cursing under my breath, I fling upon my laptop.
“What a hypocrite I am. Being impunctual and forgetful, and writing about self-improvement online”, I think with a sardonic smile.
“Suddenly my life seems like a confusing maze of problems without solutions.”
Soon, back down the thinker rabbit hole, I am furiously contemplating my beliefs, weighing them against opposing reflections and thinking, “Wow! I am so lost. I know nothing. Does anyone even know anything?”
Suddenly my life seems like a confusing maze of problems without solutions. Frustrated, “To hell with this, I’ll just watch some YouTube”, I think. As I sift through the algorithm god’s choices, this video intrigues me.
As it zooms out, “We are tiny”, then “We are microscopic specks!” until I lose all perspective of size and in awe, and mutter “We are nothing. Literally nothing.”
A man, an invisible speck on Earth. The Sun, a million times bigger than the earth. Our galaxy a trillion times the size of the sun. And the milky way is only one of the billions of galaxies in the observable universe. What even are we or our problems then? Nothing. As Stephen Hawking has said,
“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can’t believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.”
“What even are we or our problems then? Nothing.”
So, the next time your problems seem huge or all-encompassing, remind yourself of the universe and how utterly laughably insignificantly tiny you and your problems are compared to it.
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