Sunday, August 06, 2006

inescapably small


once long ago, i was off snowboarding or hiking or whatever it was doing, and i collapsed and fell to the ground. i was lying there staring at the nearly pitch black night sky with only very, very faint stars, and i took it all in all at once. at that moment i felt very distant and detached from my body. i stared deeper and deeper into the universe. i felt as though i could see forever, far to the other end of the galaxy, and past that. bigger and bigger i saw. seeing farther and farther. then realizing where i was i went back. smaller and smaller to where i was lying on the ground. i saw how increadibly small i was... i nearly sh!t my pants. but then i let go. i saw and accepted that i was so small that it really doesn't matter what i or anybody else does. yeah, i know, this sounds really cliched and cheesy, but so what. i kinda liked the feeling, just complete bliss, not a care about anything at all. it was almost a religious experience. so, yeah, if anyone reading this hasn't tried this, you really need to. it puts everything into perspective.

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