Dreaming

We really are quite lonely here on this planet. You can put most of human history into a few well-written books. Everything that we've ever known has been here. Every great civilization, every saint, every sinner, every failed artist, every lord and lady, every monarch and every serf, every minister and every scientist. Every single one has lived out their life on this little planet in some far off corner of the galaxy.

We go about our daily lives and think all this world we see before us is huge and complex. But when we look at the stars at night, we can realize that the universe is much, much bigger and surprisingly a lot more simple than we thought.

We look to these stars and we dream. We see our future. Every powerful ruler and every indentured servant in history has looked up at the stars and thought about what is out there.

They are not that different, the ruler and the servant.

They both look at the stars and dream.