Our cradle rocks above an Abyss !!!

Today I realized the very futility of my existence. 

It is a holiday today, 24th of February, 2013. I just now took a bath and went out to the park for a stroll under the sun. Right now the sun and its warmth is so soothing; in a couple of months the same sun would be hell bent on frying us up. But till then it is so soothing. It is then that I realized something.

I realized the very existence that I have is nothing more than a blip in the universal time frame. I am but a worthless creation in the universe and I have so much of ego in me. I looked around to see if I was correct. If the feeling that I was having was correct. I realized yes it is indeed correct.

Just Imagine !!!!!

• The universe, at least the observable universe is 15 billion light years across which makes it something like 3500 billion cubic light years in volume (and it is expanding every moment) and that 1 light year is like 10 trillion kilometers. Now the number that finally comes out is just humongous.
• In the aforementioned universe there are at least a 100 billion galaxies one among which is MILKY WAY, our home galaxy.
• In Milky way, like most other galaxies, there are close to a 1000 billion stars out of which there is a small star called SUN.
• In SUN's family there are 8 + (many) planets, hundreds of satellites (moons) and thousands of other rocky stuff out of which a very average sized planet is EARTH.
• On this earth lives 7.5 billion earthlings and hundreds of millions of other birds, animals and other known and unknown creatures out of which one human being is me, Shubham Chakraborty.
• And I am standing on a CRUST of thickness 32 kilo metres which is separating me from thousands of degrees of boiling hot lava below my feet. 
• You might say 32 kilo metres !!! Whoa ..... but hold on the lava we are standing on is 2400 kilo metres and below it is another 3200 kilo metres of hot core. So dear we are at the mercy of this thin crust which is floating on the lava..
• And when I looked up into the sky I realised that only 15 kilo metres of any worthwhile atmosphere is separating me from a certain death of vacuum. 
• And guess what, me and people like me have some really bloated ego !!!

We human beings don't take enough time to think about the very futility of our existence. That when we are here we are to hold hands in hands and do something that is for the benefit of all. Universality and not Humanity is what is the need of the hour.

Friends, fighting ego is the most difficult thing because ego will not let you realize, let alone accept, that you have an ego. So when you feel you are something GREAT keep the aforementioned points in your head and your feet will remain firmly grounded.

As Vladimir Nabokov  put it, 

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.".