Everything is Little in a Universe so Massive: Who will remember us?
I was thinking this morning of all that I need t finish in the next three weeks: 2 5-8 page papers (one on a novel, one on poetry), 3 online quizzes, 2 in class quizzes, 3 short answer assignments, a book, and a video about deforestation.... It seems like so much work. But, then I started thinking about all the homework that every child, teenager, and college student has to do in the entire world. Then, all the people in this world. All the animals... Homework doesn't seem so large anymore when compared to the problems of so many. I'm lucky to have so much when so many have so little. I don't have to worry about being fed or clothed. I have a roof over my head.
Then I started thinking about all the people not here today. My grand aunt Tia Magda died yesterday morning. We weren't very close but it still puts a pain in my heart because I'm only 20 years old and I know for too many people who have died. My abuelo and abuela, Tony, Marie's grandmother, both of my grand uncles (Uncle George, Tio Allipio). Its too much. There are more dead people then alive! Isn't that scary to know? there are more dead people then alive....
And then there is so much more. Mammoths? They are extinct, no one alive right now has ever seen one moving. Isn't that a scary thought? No one here has ever seen a mammoth alive.
There is so much about this world that I need to know, that we all need to learn about so we can pass it along. Our grandchildren, might not ever see a polar bear. And if we don't take as many pictures, film as many videos as we can, if we don't write everything down, then it will be lost. Gone. Its impossible for humans to inhabit Earth forever, even if we do clean up our act and help the planet. I don't remember the scientific term for it, but scientists estimate that in 5 billion years our sun will explode.
Will humans have found a new solar system to inhabit by then. Who is going to remember us?
Then I started thinking about all the people not here today. My grand aunt Tia Magda died yesterday morning. We weren't very close but it still puts a pain in my heart because I'm only 20 years old and I know for too many people who have died. My abuelo and abuela, Tony, Marie's grandmother, both of my grand uncles (Uncle George, Tio Allipio). Its too much. There are more dead people then alive! Isn't that scary to know? there are more dead people then alive....
And then there is so much more. Mammoths? They are extinct, no one alive right now has ever seen one moving. Isn't that a scary thought? No one here has ever seen a mammoth alive.
There is so much about this world that I need to know, that we all need to learn about so we can pass it along. Our grandchildren, might not ever see a polar bear. And if we don't take as many pictures, film as many videos as we can, if we don't write everything down, then it will be lost. Gone. Its impossible for humans to inhabit Earth forever, even if we do clean up our act and help the planet. I don't remember the scientific term for it, but scientists estimate that in 5 billion years our sun will explode.
Will humans have found a new solar system to inhabit by then. Who is going to remember us?