Stars

Have you ever just looked at the stars and thought '...what the crap?'
How is there so many significant and tiny things up there, and how the hell am I so used to looking at them?
How many people do you suppose are looking at the very same stars, and how many of them do you figure I am never going to meet?
How many of those stars are planets?
How many of them were romantically named after a girl that a boy really liked?
How many of them have already burned out?
How many of them ARE there?

That goes for everything!

How many people am I never ever going to know?
And how many of those (listed above) are a lot like me? Or... wondering the same thing?
How many people are within a 2 mile radius of me?
How many other people in the world wonder about these things?

So, does this unknown make us small and insignificant? Unoriginal and a simple number?
I don't think so...
I think it just goes to show that while we may have 1,000 reasons to hate someone, to love someone, to change someone... we are so the same. We have 100,000 things about us that are identical. It's humbling, really. Because we often focus on all the factors that make people different, and all the reasons that we think it is fair to tell them to change. But if we focused, even for just 10 seconds, on all the things that the entire human race shares - we will see that the differences are stars. They are small, but significant. Without even one of them the whole atmosphere would be different, but when I look through the front windshield of the car and glance upon the sky, I won't be able to tell the difference.

Go tell someone they're awesome. Because dammit, they are.