Friday, September 16, 2011

The Grand Scheme of things : On being a particle living (briefly) on a speck

There are often moments when I feel a great sense of smallness. It's usually when I walk down tall flights of stairs and stop for a second- I wonder about how small we are. Small in relation to everything that has ever existed. A pixel that is so insignificant in the bigger picture.

What I mean to say is that people spend their whole lives trying to "make it big " and to be "someone ". But in the grand scheme of things, does it really matter how many people know your name and emulate you? To some people,fame is really everything . They will tell you that their goal is to be known .

But Fame doesn't equate to happiness.Turn on the television , the people who smile on the red carpets and are plastered on every tabloid, we can never know the true price of their fame. Anyway, the point of this isn't fame and it's negative points ( because I don't know the first thing about it and assuming is never a good route to go ) it's about making your time here on Earth worth something .

In the grand scheme of things, we won't be remembered, celebrated or even acknowledged. But it shouldn't matter, it should matter to us that although there is no reward to most things, we should try anyway. Try to make a change in our society, in our schools, work, the general environment that comes into contact with us. We may not make a splash but if everyone of us made a small ripple , and the people around us felt it ,the people around them would feel it, then pretty soon a whole ocean of change would be upon us . Like the MTV ad says, " One won't make a difference .Two will " , it's not about changing the world in one day but rather changing ourselves first.

So regardless of how small and insignificant you may be, just remember that an atom bomb requires something so tiny to cause a major event . We all need to make a change , because sitting around complaining is the last thing that should be on our minds ...