From an outside observer’s point of view…
You sure are interesting, little ants, crawling around on a largely uninteresting little sphere you honestly believe you control. You do not understand the wonder that surrounds you in this vast Universe, but each and every one of you believes you are the center of it. Most of the time, your tiny tragedies and victories are the only thing that matters. You rush around, acting all serious and important, as though your next wrong step could cause all of existence to collapse around you.
You are assured of your self-importance when, purely by chance or other cirucmstances beyond your control, life slips some good fortune your way, and you feel utterly alone and helpless when you face tragedy or helplessness, as though no one has ever faced it before. You forget that you are but one in only a few billion, on a largely uninteresting little sphere, spinning out of control through a massive Universe you know nothing about, nor could even begin to guess the scale of.
Your fragile bodies, easily damaged, constantly under attack by disease, chemicals, time, and even each other, still manages to survive, despite the unrelenting odds.
You are blips in time, points in space, mediocre in existence, lost in meaning, absorbed in self-assuredness, helpless in potential. And yet that is your greatest, unwavering power: potential.
How such seemingly molecular randomness could form together to produce such astounding potential for transcendental greatness, or to produce such gruesome possibility for unrelenting horror.
Your time has not yet come. You have not reached your potential yet, but you have reached a potential. Because of where you are now, you may never be where you are to be, but if this experiment, on a largely uninteresting little sphere, soaring purposefully through the galaxy to a destination unknown, does not go awry, then only time will tell what truly lies within.
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