ARE WE PRIVILEGED ENOUGH AS A HUMAN SPECIES?

How privileged are we?

This is the only generation of time where everyone can talk or text virtually without contacting personally or physically. We are making electrons place our bidding with the help of technology which our ancestors thought off as sorcery or magic. Science is making us live longer, healthier, happier and everything Now done is never done ever before, which is fascinating.

The world that we live in right now is the best time ever until now. Every previous generation has experienced inequality, suffering, torture especially discrimination against women. But now everyone is in the direction to strive towards equality and recent data do suggests that we are living in much safer world than ever before except for pollution and climate change.

We are much safer Now because there is suffering in every previous generation like hunger, war, devastation etc. Only now we are able to combat the problems in an effective manner.

We are enjoying the fruits of the internet and functioning of quantum mechanics that physicists planted the foundations in 1920s like transistors, computer, internet.

And finally we Now know our place in the universe and how significantly insignificant we absolutely are(so tiny, so tiny) and still our 3 pounds of brain figured most of it out and created a self sustaining civilization for themselves and thought about the beginning of everything(big bang) and unraveling the inner workings of the universe.

The humility we feel when we look up and wonder about everything is unfathomably inconceivable and incredible indeed.

How privileged are we? Very very much so 😊.

MEASUREMENTS THAT CAN TAKE A TOLL ON YOUR BRAIN.

This is the journey from smallest unit of measurement to human to universe.

The smallest measurement is known as Planck length. Do you know how small that is?
If we consider a grain of sand as a Planck length, then the total size or number of Planck lengths filled in a proton is 4 light years distance approximately. Which means if we fill out all grains of sand from here to nearest star known as Proxima centauri, which is 40 trillion kilometers across, then you arrive at the size of a proton.

Now if we consider a proton as a dust particle, then the size of an atom is a cathedral hall(a huge church).

And if those atoms are clumped up with a number of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 then you are filled up with a human being size. Which means if we cut a human being to 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pieces then each piece will be an atom.

7.7 billion of those humans with millions of other species and dust and quantity of earth fills earth. But we can fit 1,000,000 earth's inside a sun.


Those suns or more massive than sun's if clumped up to 100,000,000,000 of them, then it will be a galaxy.

And if we clumped up 2,000,000,000,000 of those galaxies, then we come to what we call as an observable universe.

Quite a journey, isn't it?

LIFE AND WHY IT IS A JOURNEY.

We don't know before we born, will we be alive? There is no possible way of asking that question, until Only after being born and with sufficient amount of experience of being alive.

And we don't know what happens after we die, before we die. No logical explanation, ever explains what it is meant to die. When we dream and when we have nightmares, our dream automatically stops the moment we feel like dying in dream, because even our brain don't have The ability to perceive what happens after we die. So we wake up and often suspend in disbelief about dream.

The only thing matters in life is journey, not origin and not destination. What we are when we are living matters than thinking about after life which probably doesn't exist.

So live the life you want to live rather than accepting the norms. Respect others and be respected with your actions. Enjoy the process and not the result. Face the adversities with smile and knock the sucker punch out of problems.

Science, medicine has allowed humans to prolong the journey much further and much farther. With the recent advents of new techniques like CRISPR, we are able to live life, be happier than ever before. And we can conceive of living longer, extending our journey of stupifyingly improbable event known as life, having more experiences than any human ever experienced before, embracing new technology and getting equipped to intelligence as we are heading towards type 1 civilization, trying to achieve immortality(not worrying about death) and we will die only when  we get bored and kill ourselves.

ONLY THE JOURNEY MATTERS.