Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Up in Space


When you look out at the night sky in Toronto, what do you see? What can you see? The green glow of fluorescent lights gives a small buzz to the sky. It pulses and and spreads as the sky gets darker.

There is an interesting quirk in people, we usually don't look up. It may be a result of living in a city center for most of their lives. When we look up into the sky now, we just see a black sky with few stars. We used to look into the cosmos and be captivated by a vast opera of stars and planets. Living in a city has its distinct advantages. It does put a greater strain on opening up our imaginations. Where were the boogie men hiding in the shadows, where is that pull of adventure to see what's over the next hill? Where do we find that sense of adventure again?

We find it in the stars. It's looking out into space that we find the great unknown. Looking at the same photons of light, that Einstein, Sagan, Hawking, and Newton looked out on. Why have most of us stopped looking up? If you're reading this, you have some homework. Take one week, and just look up. What do you see? What do you think about? Do it at night, do it during the day, but look up, and see the world above you. You never know what will inspire you to move or to create. One of the hidden beauties about the sky is this: It is the same sky that everyone else on the world looks at. Kennedy said once: "We are all united on this world, not as Americans or as Russians; but as people. We breathe the same air, drink the same water, and look at the same sky and moon."

It's something that can unite us all, looking into the night sky. Wondering, "what is out there?" Maybe we'll find out one day. Maybe as we stretch our eyes beyond our own galaxies, we'll catch a glimpse of something out there.


We should always be looking to the sky. It's one of the few things that can unite everyone together, regardless of race, religion or creed. We all share the same home, and we should be working together to maintain it. We don't have a lot of options of going anywhere else. The one thing that everyone should pull from looking at the stars is this: "We are all connected." You, me, the trees, the rocks, comets and nebulas around the solar system. It's made of all the same materials that there are here on earth. The next time you look into a night sky, and can see the stars, recognize that, the light you are seeing, hitting your optical nerves, took light years to travel to you. Light years, being pulled by gravity in multiple directions, to hit your optic receptors and show you their image. You are also doing the same. It may seem large, empty, big and overwhelming. It's not, though. We're all connected, you just have to look and see the basic building blocks that put us together.























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One last great piece of wisdom






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