[Written: 2024-11-09]

Today I was wondering how we all fit together in this extraordinarily complex and delicately balanced world. I came to the conclusion that all we all do fit together in unseeable ways of which we are still learning how or at least some of us are, myself included).

But, it something else that captured my focus whilst I was pondering the nature of the universe, life and my place: a point of perspective.

I realised that it is the big things in life that sometimes are harder to see. For instance, the Earth that we walk on is flat to a child; and it is also small to them; it is under their feet, where it always is, where it always has been, and where it always will be.

But, when we get older, we are privileged with access to photo’s of our planet that are taken from out of space. We can see with these photo’s that we see in schools or on the internet that the planet is a sphere floating in space, and not the flat thing that we see as children.

So, until we change our perspective, we don’t actually fully comprehend the size of the things in front of us, and this made me view small things in a different light: most of the man made things are made from an accumulation of unknowable years of evolution (human, societal and personal), and all are smaller than the planet we walk on. But, everywhere we look we see something that was man made – from the cars, airplanes and trains, to the coffee’s, magazines, laptops and pencil with notepads; even if a person was to go out into the untouched wilderness completely naked they would carry something made by man kind: themselves.

And these relatively small things are made and connected from memories. When someone designed the first bathtub, they saw something that inspired the idea, possible from the minds eye, maybe from the real world (like a hot spring), more than likely a culmination of them both. But, it was memories and thoughts that helped them come up with the idea and create it.

And these physical possessions are a part of who the individual who owns them are at that time, from there homes and room setups, to photo’s and school love letters that they keep, it all has a bearing on who they are and who they want to be; these are huge things that the earth cannot fit all of them on at once, as people are constantly changing, experiencing new thing and making new memories; so are the small things we see actually really, really big things? Or at the very least, attached to something much bigger.