What is man but a blink of the eye in the history of time? A brief episode on a planet among millions floating in a sea of endless galaxies. Man, whose problems seem so lofty and great and whose destructive reach knows no limit, is scarcely a speck of dust in the grander scheme of the universe. He has placed himself above the rest of his fellow inhabitants with a self-assigned superiority, convinced that he is the ultimate manifestation of God's creative capacity.
Perhaps its an issue of perspective or rather, one of untamed ego; an audacity to assign a self-important role in this grand history. His personal problems, his anxiety, his depression amount to little less than nothing. All his laws, wars, economies, and new technologies as insignificant as our fleeting desires. The universe was there long before man crawled from the earth's mirky depths and will surely continue long after his inevitable descent.
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