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0:02 have you ever looked up at the night sky
0:04 and pondered about your very own
0:06 existence maybe you were camping out
0:08 with some friends or all alone marveling
0:10 at the big canvas of Darkness plastered
0:12 with countless glowing
0:14 stars well you're not alone looking
0:16 above and contemplating the sheer
0:18 immensity of the universe is something
0:20 humans have been doing since the dawn of
0:22 time it's quite magical that recognizing
0:24 your part of something inexplicably huge
0:26 and impersonal can elicit feelings that
0:30 are so deep reflective and personal
0:31 whenever you find yourself lost in these
0:33 pensive moments know that the Universe
0:35 this ancient organism that we were
0:37 somehow born into is calling you on a
0:39 spiritual journey that is in one way or
0:41 another meant to guide you through your
0:43 deep and existential emotions and help
0:45 you find your place in its cold yet
0:47 comforting grasp the ancient stoics
0:49 understood precisely how immense our
0:51 human problems could feel they knew how
0:53 a bad day at work could develop into a
0:55 week of aggravation they knew how a
0:56 string of bad luck could become a
0:59 gateway to depression but they also knew
1:01 how in significant our problems really
1:03 are in the grand scheme of things and
1:04 that once we fully understood this
1:07 Cosmic scale we would truly become free
1:09 so if you're having a bad day or you
1:11 just feel a bit out of sorts find a
1:12 quiet place and prepare yourself to
1:14 witness the view from above for the
1:17 first time you're about to embark on a
1:19 journey outside of your own body a
1:21 Celestial Adventure meant to help you
1:22 understand the she size of our ever
1:25 expanding universe and in the process
1:27 you're placed in it because only when
1:30 you look above will you be able to
1:31 understand what's
1:34 within so take a deep breath and close
1:36 your eyes your journey across the
1:44 begin wherever you are right now imagine
1:46 yourself slowly lifting out of your body
1:48 and floating in the vicinity of the room
1:50 you're in observe your surroundings
1:52 you're no longer confined to the borders
1:55 of your own body can you see yourself
1:57 sitting there with your eyes closed
2:00 taking deep breaths looks weird
2:02 right if you think about it no one
2:05 really knows you like you know yourself
2:06 people's perceptions of you are based on
2:08 their own interactions with you they
2:10 have their own biases and judgments and
2:12 while some of them come close to knowing
2:14 who you really are none of them ever
2:17 fully do floating around in your room
2:19 you can finally experience your true
2:21 self you can observe your body without
2:23 being inside of it the room you're in
2:25 and all its familiarity could very well
2:28 feel alien to you right now you may have
2:30 grown up in this room spent years
2:33 developing your sense of self and yet as
2:35 you float around none of it feels it's
2:38 genuinely yours as the abstract feeling
2:40 of Detachment swirls through your mind
2:42 you suddenly zoom out to observe the
2:44 countless houses in your neighborhood or
2:45 the endless apartment stacked in towering
2:47 towering
2:49 skyscrapers people just like you wake up
2:51 every morning and carry on living in the
2:52 same houses growing up in the same
2:55 streets and leading similar lives it's
2:57 funny how we could be so physically
2:59 close to each other and yet know nothing
3:01 of one another another how many people
3:04 live in your town or city how many of
3:06 them do you really know what are their
3:09 dreams and Ambitions their fears and
3:11 insecurities do you think they're that
3:14 different to yours we tend to think that
3:16 our Human Experience is so unique that
3:18 no one not a single person out of the
3:20 nearly 8 billion of us on this planet
3:22 can begin to understand what we're going
3:24 through but the truth is we're a lot
3:26 more similar than we believe and that
3:28 should give us solace in the face of
3:30 adversity look look at the houses in
3:31 your neighborhood or the buildings
3:34 stacked elegantly next to each other
3:37 they are all the same as you witness
3:38 this view from above your heart will
3:40 begin to fill with an unexpected warmth
3:42 as you feel connected to every one of
3:45 the humans inside those houses it's like
3:46 a piece of you lives in every single one
3:49 of them a lot of the towns in the US
3:50 have populations of a thousand and yet
3:53 we still call them small but aren't a
3:56 thousand people a lot try and imagine
3:58 that number on a football field or a
4:00 basketball court are these towns still
4:04 considered small in your eyes the United
4:05 States is actually considered a nation
4:07 of small towns out of a population of
4:10 around 330 million people data from the
4:12 past decade shows that 34s live in
4:15 cities and towns with fewer than 5,000
4:19 people so I ask again is a thousand
4:21 small continue to zoom out and you see
4:23 the towns and cities that make up States
4:24 Bound by imaginary
4:27 Borders or are they really
4:29 imaginary there's around 40 million
4:31 people people living in California
4:33 basking in the Golden Sun of the Pacific
4:36 Ocean on the other hand there are only
4:38 about 732 th000 people living an
4:40 entirely different life in the cold of
4:43 Alaska the life of a Californian is very
4:45 different from that of an Alaskan even
4:46 if both are just humans trying to make
4:49 the most out of their puzzling
4:51 existence our history has also drawn
4:52 some real Blood Stained boundaries
4:54 separating us and forcing us to focus on
4:56 our differences rather than our
4:58 similarities Wars have claimed millions
5:01 of lives mostly in the names of
5:03 ideologies of separation and
5:06 alienation as you slowly travel the
5:08 globe from the American continent you
5:09 see how life can develop completely
5:11 differently despite
5:13 proximity throughout history many
5:15 countries fought internal civil battles
5:17 and subsequently declared their own
5:19 independence South Sudan declared
5:22 independence from Sudan in 2011 Kosovo
5:24 declared independence from Serbia in
5:26 2008 and Montenegro became its own state
5:30 after separating from Serbia in 2006
5:31 many more have separated and declared
5:33 their independence which makes you
5:34 wonder how defined we are by the
5:42 into are you still breathing your
5:43 journey through planet Earth is almost
5:46 over you've lifted from your body away
5:48 from your hometown out of your home
5:49 country and now you're floating in the
5:52 atmosphere of our tiny blue planet
5:54 perhaps aboard the International Space
5:57 Station in 24 hours this tiny space
6:00 station orbits our planet 16 times 16
6:03 sunrises and 16 sunsets imagine looking
6:06 at the Earth as you orbit its 40,075 km
6:09 or around 25,000 M
6:10 circumference except for the moon
6:12 landing everything that has ever
6:14 happened in the history of humanity has
6:16 happened on this planet everything we've
6:19 ever experienced every joy every
6:21 disappointment every love every broken
6:23 heart our entire human existence is
6:25 presently confined to this rotating
6:28 Globe floating in the vastness of space
6:32 and as it rotates at 16 1,75 kmph time
6:34 passes and washes away all that ever was
6:36 and makes room for whatever there is to
6:38 come our planet has existed for 4 1/2
6:41 billion years but us modern humans have
6:43 only been here for around 200,000 years
6:45 and civilization as we know it is only
6:49 around 6,000 years old you and me if
6:51 we're lucky enough will'll only get to
6:54 experience around 80 more of those years
6:55 everything that has happened before and
6:57 everything that will happen after we can
6:59 only imagine
7:01 the burden of our existence is nothing
7:03 but a speck of dust in the cosmic
7:06 hourglass looking at Earth from above
7:08 could be daunting astronauts that live
7:10 on the ISS almost always come back to
7:12 earth with a fundamental understanding
7:14 of what it truly means to be alive and
7:15 what matters most in
7:19 life take another long and deep breath
7:21 let your lungs fill with the magnitude
7:22 of what you've already experienced and
7:24 what you're about to
7:26 experience we're going to Journey
7:28 further into space deep into our solar
7:30 system and then into Uncharted Territory
7:33 where no human has ever traversed leave
7:35 all your human preconceptions behind and
7:37 open your heart to the expanding
7:39 universe as you finally break free from
7:41 the Earth's atmosphere imagine yourself
7:42 floating further to the edge of
7:45 interstellar space looking at our solar
7:48 system as a whole eight planets circling
7:50 around a glowing star each one of these
7:52 planets has its own unique story from
7:54 Saturn's ringed Beauty to the massive
7:56 bulk of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot
7:58 big enough to engulf the entirety of Earth
7:59 Earth
8:01 but even Jupiter's incredible Mass holds
8:03 no candle to the centerpiece of our
8:06 glorious solar system the sun the star
8:08 that holds our collection of planets
8:11 together our sun is 109 times wider than
8:13 Earth and makes up 99.8% of our Solar
8:16 System's entire Mass put everything
8:17 you've experienced in the scale and then
8:19 compare it to the shear magnitude of our
8:22 glowing star and let it sink in for a
8:24 second let's take a step further and
8:26 slowly leave the safety of our solar
8:29 system observe as the sun itself becomes
8:31 a small particle barely visible from our
8:34 astronomical vantage point you look
8:35 around you and notice the countless
8:37 other stars billions of glowing specs
8:40 everywhere you turn there are more stars
8:41 in the universe than there are grains of
8:44 sand on earth more than 10,000 stars for
8:45 each grain in
8:47 fact most of these stars have planets
8:50 orbiting around them just like our solar
8:52 system if the primordial soup that
8:54 spawned life on Earth managed to
8:55 replicate on one of these countless
8:58 planets would it be similar to Life as
9:00 We Know It On Earth would they wonder
9:02 about their existence the same way we do
9:04 would they understand how small and
9:06 insignificant their problems are in the
9:09 grand scheme of things imagine alien
9:10 civilizations fighting through their own
9:12 existence just like you and I imagine
9:14 the struggle to exist in the universe
9:17 every day planets that Harbor life that
9:19 orbit stars that make up galaxies that
9:22 float around alone in space you are now
9:23 leaving the Milky Way and venturing
9:25 further out into the still and Silent
9:28 darkness of the universe everywhere you
9:30 look there's a gy gxy waiting to be
9:32 explored a Galaxy that could Harbor a
9:34 star that might have a planet that
9:36 somehow managed to produce life Against
9:39 All Odds one more deep breath and you're
9:41 now looking at the entire observable
9:44 universe one big organism that is at
9:46 least 92 billion light years
9:48 wide now that you've been able to
9:50 observe the universe as a whole it's
9:52 time to slowly bring it all back in
9:54 let's find the Milky Way among the
9:55 hundreds of billions of galaxies out
9:58 there let's find our sun among the
10:00 100,000 Millions stars in our home
10:02 Galaxy we're finally back in the solar
10:05 system passing from Neptune to Saturn to
10:08 Mars and finally Earth you jump from the
10:10 ISS and burst through the atmosphere and
10:12 then cross the imaginary borders that
10:14 are meant to separate us find your
10:16 country your state your street and then
10:19 your home finally look at yourself
10:22 breathing taking all that experience in
10:25 take one last deep breath and open your
10:27 eyes next time you're feeling down or
10:28 the world seems to be taking too much of
10:31 a toll you contemplate Your Existence
10:34 and remember this moment this feeling this
10:35 this
10:37 experience let it remind you that
10:39 whatever is weighing you down is only
10:42 temporary a minor setback in the grand Cosmic
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