Absolutely II

 

Woodstock

We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
And we got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere was a song
And a celebration

And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes
Riding shotgun in the sky
Turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust, we are golden
We are caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

We are here because we are billion-year old carbon.

In the United States, it is said that a hundred miles is a short distance but one hundred years is a long time.  By contrast, in Europe, it is said that one hundred miles is a long distance but one hundred years is a short time.  In both places, a million miles is a very long distance and a million years is a very long time.  And maybe that is a lesson for all of us.  

Our lives are typically no more than a hundred years. The typical human will travel 30,000 to 50,000 miles in their lifetime. The Earth on which we live might travel 370 million miles in our lifetime but those are still insignifcant compared to the 14 billion light-year size, 14 billion year age of the universe. https://www.space.com/human-travel-trillion-miles-lifetime-universe-motion 

But we are here because the universe is as large as it is and as has existed as long as it has.  Each individual may only live for a mere fraction of the age of the universe and travel only a mere fraction of the size of the universe.  And even that age and that size of the universe is limited.  The absolute is limitless.  Remember that.  Don’t get caught in the devil’s bargain.  Get back to the garden.