From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it veryone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering. thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that stronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to reserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997
So, my dear sister, if the world we live-in is a speck in this vast space, how small are we and how trifling our upsets are? At any juncture in life, recite the above lines, chant the mantra "Pale blue dot" and keep smiling.
Gautham
That was the letter from a 17 year old brother, to a 15 year old sister, a letter conveying the most valuable teachings of life, a lesson that had changed the girl's attitude towards life, once and for all. She truly smiled for the first time in past seven days, overcoming the anguish she's been in, ever since she saw her 10th grade score. She kissed the letter, folded it with a smile secured in her cupboard and headed downstairs to her father's room, least known to the fact that, she will be revisiting the letter sooner and this letter is going to turn out as the last token from her brother.
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This is the beginning of the beautiful lovestory of
Jodha Akkineni and Jalal Ahmed!
„Ee velalo neevu em chestu untavo
Anukuntu untanu prati nimishamu nenu
(Every moment I keep wondering, what would you be doing at this time)
„Mullu ni mullu thone teeyali Jo, come on!“
(A thorn should be remove with a thorn)"
The moment their eyes locked with eacd with a thorn)h others, both their minds articulated in unanimity: „What an eyes!“
„Hey Miss… ee indrajalanni (this magic)?“
„Ee indrajalanni neevena chesindi? Is that you who did this magic to me?“
„Do you think I didn’t observe you coming from the beach completely lost in a reverie watching that thorn?“
„Wait, what’s that in your hand?“
„Err.. This? Nothing, just found it on the way, picked it up to dump in the bin before it hurts someone!“
„It didn’t strike me then. I believe in destiny Samyu, if we are destined to meet again, he himself will step into my life with his introduction.“
I don’t know, but i didn’t feel like asking. Anyways, if she is destined to me, she herself will walk into my life with her introduction.
„No rose in the world can hold a candle to mine.“
„Long answer or short?“
„Long!“
„Marry me!“
Dhak… dhak… dhak… dhak…
„I love you. Period!“
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Happy 11th anniversary to The Pale Blue Dot!
A story full of love, loss and mystery!
Eleven years of “The Pale Blue Dot”. A story that became a universe cherished by us readers.
Thank you, Jahnavi, for sharing this wonderful story with us and for continuing it after years of waiting.
Edited by So-So - 3 months ago
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