A thing that sucks about city life is the absence of the night sky filled with stars. I like seeing stars, and I really think that not seeing clusters of stars is well… a kind of hypnotic negativity brought upon by that unexplainable something that is the core of all the wrongs in this world.

I mean, looking up at a star-filled night brings forth a sense of wonder to every human. It restores the balance within every individual.

The smog of the city blocks our view of space, it makes us forget how vulnerable we are, how little we are in this universe. Like blinders on a horse, it only allows us to see one part of being alive. The “modern-earth” part, and only that. We have been brainwashed in to thinking that we have nothing more to live for other than to get our bank accounts to a Trump level, our dreams of having a giant house, our sport cars, our faces buried in our smart phones, etc. 

Awe. We have forgotten how to be in awe. We have forgotten the wonder that is being alive.

We have forgotten how little we are in this universe which in turn convinced us that we are the center of the whole cosmos. It has forced us to take our lives very seriously, VERY seriously, to the point that we forget to enjoy the present. We have been so focused in the future, that we forget that there is a life happening right now. We have forgotten the fact that our lives can end in any second. We have been feeling a false sense of security. A feeling that we are above nature. A feeling that we can survive every curve ball that life can throw at us. 

Well, we can’t.

I’m not saying this to scare people, rather, I’m simply saying that we have to enjoy life. We have to enjoy the now. Isn’t it a great way to see the world knowing that you can be gone any second? It makes us appreciate every detail, every good, every bad, literally everything that we experience in this life. It makes us see the fact that we were not put on this earth to become brainless machines that only thinks of work. Working all the time, not even stopping to appreciate the beauty that this one shot can offer us.

What I’m saying is, we have to slow down. We REALLY need to slow down, all of us. We need to relearn how to appreciate simple things. 

Like a star filled night sky.