Perspectives

Yesterday, while waiting for a meeting at the SM Science and Discovery Center, Mall of Asia, I and a colleague were treated to a planetarium show.  We developed a system for them and since they are opening this Saturday (or is that Sunday?) last minute changes and testing are being done.

 The meeting was supposed to be at 11am and we were there on time.  Anyway, it got moved to 3pm, so to while away some time, the operations manager asked us if we wanted to watch in the planetarium.  Well, since we have done our testing and changes, I figured why not, it's just 30 minutes anyway.  

So there we were, with a bunch of grade school kids in the dark dome like structure.   Watching the  earth from afar then it zoomed out into the solar system, then the adjoining stars and later on, it showed the immensity of the Milky Way, though composed of probably billions of stars and trillions of solar systems is still only one Galaxy out of billions Galaxies in the Universe. 

Then it got me thinking, "somebody up there is still VERY busy making worlds.  Preparing the atmosphere of some far away planet, creating the right mixture of gases, measuring the temperature to make it just right, in other words, making that world inhabitable." 

Yep, looking at our world from afar and how it compares in size to everything around our solar system sure puts everything in the right perspective.  All of a sudden I felt like an atom, no make that an electron.  A speck of dust in the wider scheme of things. And I thought I had problems!!! Hahahaha! 

The Universe 

It's funny but when I was having problems two to three years ago, I really thought "MY"  world was ending.   I was so engrossed with the details of what was happening in my own teensy little world that I failed to see that compared to other things, it is but an insignificant crumb.  To tell you frankly, I have always prided myself in being able to see the big picture.  Well, there couldn't be a more BIGGER PICTURE than what I just saw.  What's more baffling was that I had knowledge of the enormity of the Universe, and ideas of how, where and why it is.  Yet somehow, I seemed to have lost that while undergoing personal stress.  

Oh well, yesterday's experience was just what the doctor ordered.  I guess, seeing things in their proper perspective did help a lot, knowing that in the bigger scheme of things, my problems are insignificant and should not be taken too seriously.