Over the past few weeks, I have come to realize that I have complete sympathy for every human being.

When I see someone, I see them as an innocent newborn who has been burdened (or blessed) with their genetic dispositions and their social and environmental experiences.

I can’t describe how much at peace I am with this.

In light of reality, I find it difficult to believe in a good god, or any other higher being or collection of higher beings that is indeed good.

So, I’ve thought:

If there’s no good god: Fuhgeddaboudit.

If there’s a bad god: Fuhgeddaboudit.

If there’s no god: Fuhgeddaboudit.

Now, I think I’m an “agnostic secular-humanist”, which doesn’t make me a member of a religion, but rather an adherent to a particular life stance.

Not knowing the meaning of life or what happens after death is frustrating.

Absolute and Ultimate Truth! Where are you?!

A lot of people take a leap of faith to escape this despair.

On the other hand, I’m not sure what I’m doing or what I plan to do in that regard.

Recently, I’ve spent a few moments pondering about the immensity of the universe and the seemingly insignificant nature of Earth and humanity in terms of space and time. (If you have a hard time picturing this, then check this out and play around with the options available. You’ll understand what I’m talking about.)

Anyway, after some thought, I must say I’m frustrated at the limitations that space and time place on us humans. And I don’t mean it an all-encompassing perspective where I take the history of humanity into consideration. I’m referring to a shorter time frame that’s around, let’s say, a hundred years. Now, within this interval, advancements in technologies to explore other planets will be relatively slow. Additionally, even if we develop the technology to explore other planets, the amount of time it would take to reach them would be inordinately long. (Frustrating, isn’t it?)

Some of you may not place too much importance in learning about what makes up the rest of the universe. But, some of us, like me, do. And, I’m sure humanity will continue its efforts to learn more about the universe for as long as possible. In that case, the limits posed by space and time are significant.

Okay. That’s really all I have to say about that for now. I’m just throwing this thought out there.

So, donate a few minutes to such thoughts. It won’t hurt. Hopefully, it’ll just give you a renewed sense of yourself in the context of the universe, with all of its space and time. As they say, (not really…I’m making this up): “From the Big Bang to the Big Picture”. (I’m not sure that makes any sense at all. But, oh well. Take care.)