Belonging
Belonging Light Years Away The earth constitutes about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003 percent of the observable universe. Such an infinitesimally minute statistic is unfathomable to our human minds, but what we can grasp from the seemingly endless nature of space is our conscious distinctness from the unthinking voids that surround us as well as our physical connection to them. The electrical impulses that fabricate our emotions and the macromolecules that synthesize every one of our bodies all share the same beginning with the billions of galaxies dotting our cosmos. Alone under the night stars, accompanied by my camera and tripod, these thoughts consume me, and I experience belonging– a snug sensation of unity with the universe and with humanity. Witnessing a blanket of stars on a clear night is a modest reminder that what I refer to as “my life” is merely a series of natural events– just like any other phenomena in nature, and this gives me a sen...