Sometimes, as a human being, we all must take a couple steps back and allow ourselves to feel belittled. We must humble ourselves as beings of life. Take a third person view of yourself and ask, "What is this? What am I?"
The fact of the matter is, we are just too small. Our existence is so little in a population of billions. Beyond that, even the entire human population is a spec compared to earth itself. All seven billion of us and counting occupy less than three percent of the land on earth. and dry land only makes up about twenty nine percent of the entire earth's crust. This means that the human race occupies less than one percent of the entire earth's surface.
Now take a step further back and look at the solar system we live in. The sun that we revolve around is large enough to fit about 1,000,000 earths inside of it. That sun is also small in comparison to stars such as Betelgeuse which has a radius that is roughly 1,200 times the size of our sun's radius. That being said, think of how many of these stars are out there. Trillions upon trillions of stars make up one galaxy such as the Milky Way. At this point we are beyond comparative size. We would be invisible on a subatomic level.
Yet we're still not finished... At the center of the Milky Way is a black hole that is Billions of times larger than any star in existence. The Galaxy is millions of times larger than that and it is still small compared to the rest of the universe. We are not even a blip on a blip on a blip anymore. We might as well not exist.
So what the hell are we? We are thousands of years away from any technology that could prevent life's obliteration. We are destined to be destroyed by something we will never be able to prevent. Why does our existence matter in the grand scheme of things...? I cannot believe that we would survive the endless things that the universe will throw at us forever...
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