When I have a flight, I always opt for a window seat because I love taking pictures during the trip (I have a plethora of cloud photos). On one of my recent flights I had an epiphany. I was looking out the window during landing and it suddenly hit me how small everything and everyone really is.
I mean it hit me how T I N Y our entire world looks from a plane. I zoomed in (mentally) and noticed a highway with little moving specks on it. Then I started thinking about how each one of those tiny moving specks is a car with people (smaller specks) in it. Each one of those people (probably) has goals, hopes, dreams, ideas, beliefs and a life. But at that moment, all the specks were headed in the same direction. They were all part of the same system. They all needed to work together to reach their respective destinations. Sure, their destinations were different but they still depended on each other, whether they thought about it or not to get there.
This small humbling experience made me think about how much we all need each other and how interconnected our world is. One small action you take can have huge consequences for this tiny place we call home. Our technologically advanced world might make us feel big, but as far as the universe is concerned we’re nothing but tiny specks.