Remember when you were a kid and
on a warm star filled evening………
you put your head down on the sand
and looked up in the sky……..
and with all the wonderment at your
disposal, your mind wondered…….
what was beyond the stars……..
what lies beyond the stars that
were so high in the sky and so very small in
comparison to the overall view that you had……..
I was told in one of my school classes that
there were more stars in the sky than there
were grains of sand on earth……..
I had just been to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes
earlier that day and could not fathom the
fact that there were more stars than all
the grains of sand on those dunes, let
alone all the other areas that had so much
sand on this our earth.
This then brought up the fact that I was
such a small dot on this earth compared
to all the immensity of viewing these stars.
What lies beyond these stars and the planets
that we learned about in school?……..
I just cannot put into proper visualization
or in my mind what might lie beyond that
which I can only see with my own eyes.
We tend to not understand things that we
cannot see with our own eyes or that we
cannot touch……
Our senses have taught us many things
but when it comes to the unknown,
especially as kids, we have a hard
time understanding……
The area of understanding comes when
we trust someone who has more knowledge
than we do……
and then to run with this knowledge to
give us a better understanding of what
is around us….
and to then put into action the things
that we have learned…….
This chain of “command” or knowledge
can help us as students…..
to take better command of this material
and to use it wisely………..
to better understand what has been given
to us……we need to understand the gift of
what has been given us……
Take it and open your mind to things
you could never imagine ……and realize
that we have just scraped the surface of
your ability to learn…….
This is just the beginning of a whole new world…….
open your mind and enjoy the wonderment
of what there is to be offered………..
With vision, desire and action …….
You can do anything you want!!!!
“You can do anything you want.”
Yes, we can! It does involve BEING it.
I love your optimism, John. 🙂
Hi John,
As humans, we barely understand this planet that we live on, we understand even less about the universe that our tiny blue dot swirls around in, and perhaps we understand our role in all of it least of all. I often think about how there must be other worlds of beings out there right now and others that have come and gone without our ever even being aware of them – which also means that everything we’ve ever known here on Earth could come and go and someone somewhere else in the universe would never know the difference. Some might find that discouraging, like they don’t matter, but I find it freeing in a way because the universe does not judge us for our failures or even punish us for our actions. We do all of that ourselves, so with that in mind, why not take a chance? Why not try harder? Why not live the life you want to live?
I really like this post! Thanks for sharing it!