Noticing the small things

[Sight Unseen]

Sometimes, I just stare at some random little detail, star in the sky, street corner in the city, a blade of grass, or something like that and wonder: "Has anyone ever truly noticed this or thought of it before? Will anyone ever think about this again?"

There's so much information flying about these days, after all, we live in the information age. Most things you don't even stop to consider. It's like you're drowning in things to notice, read, watch, and listen to that things only get a superficial glance, and you don't stop to really think about anything.

Sometimes, I'll get on my computer and just start playing some obscure video game that everyone else has forgotten, or watch some old TV show that was canceled after 2 episodes.

It just really puts it all into perspective. That little blade of grass, will most likely never be noticed again in its short blip of an existence. The human writing this post is just an infinitesimal speck of matter on a planet orbiting a star that is wheeling around the center of a spiral galaxy that is shooting through space around other galaxies that are ultimately screaming toward some unknown destination. This isn't the only universe either. There are an infinite number of other universes, where anything is possible, and none the same. If it can be thought of, it exists in some way, somewhere. (Avatar, the Na'vi, hell...even Neytiri, for real, exists somewhere out there.)

The universe, no, the... ultimate... everything, in all of its complexity, is simply awesome; mind-bending in every way possible.

I believe I owe life that little respect, to notice it, to try to understand it, even a little, tiny, infinitesimal part of it.

I hope you stuck with me through that. I am typing madly to get this out before I lose it.