The Pale Blue Dot

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For quite sometime, I remember watching a video presented by former US Vice President Al Gore about the “Pale Blue Dot”, a shot of the earth apparently taken by Voyager millions of miles away in space, as it trekked its journey through interstellar space to unknown galaxies. Al Gore stressed that in the wide panorama of the Milky Way there was this tiny blue planet which he identified to be our earth. Watching the video made me reconsider my self-importance – the world is just a speck in the universe, of which we humans are just a fraction of it. Everyone that mattered to me was in that tiny blue dot: Home, us, everyone I love, heroes and villains, every father and mother, brothers and sisters. In that tiny speck lies the aggregate of joys and sufferings. Suspended in a sunbeam of the cosmic arena lies that pale blue dot where our frequent misunderstandings, our hatred and imagined self-importance are causing it to self-destruct. Photo credits: Pixabay