7.19.2008

I feel small.

Now, it's not that I feel like a tiny person like I'm insignificant, that's not what I mean.  I mean I feel very small inside of a very big world.

This guy added me on Facebook, and I pressed accept before I looked at his profile.  I go and I see we have no friends in common, and he's from...where? Dublin? WHAT? At that point I was just weirded out. I have no clue how he stumbled across my page! So I ask him, he said he was probably drunk (a feat that is actually impossible for true Irish) and he just wants to meet new people.

Then he says the final phrase, "How's life on the other side of the pond?"

And that's when I felt really small.  Cause I wanted to give the guy an answer, so I look out the window and see the pond outside, with the fountain, and the infinite view distance in the sky, with the sun lowering just below the apartments across the way. And I think of how far away this guy is, and it feels like he's on a different planet (according to how I was looking at the world). Cause that's not a pond, that's an ocean, and it's incredibly large.  And I didn't cross a google map on the internet, I crossed an entire country...which is incredibly large.

Just a quick thought.

1 comment:

Elysse said...

And just imagine,
us in comparison to the UNIVERSE, not just another country.

We are one planet, around one star, in the midst of trillions of stars.