The World would be a better place if...

http://gizmodo.com/5513783/the-world-would-be-better-if-everyone-watched-this-video

I have included the link to the video I will be talking about above. Go watch it.

I would like to start off by saying that this video hit me like a big frisbee to the face. (Believe me, it gets your attention). I didn't expect it that morning when I watched it and as I was trying to hold back tears, I started sending it and posting it everywhere that I could think...except on here. I waited to post it on here because I wanted to really think about it, really wanted to expand on what I saw and how I felt. I wanted to sleep on it, really ponder what was going through my head. These are the conclusions that I came to.

First off, we are small individuals. In the cosmic universe of things, we are tiny fragments. In all honesty, we don't really matter. You can't make out our face shapes, or even our bodies from so far away. This should make me feel insignificant. This should make me want to go into my room, lock the door, and die, right? Because why does it matter? You're wrong. At first, I did feel this way. After talking to people though, it makes me want to do bigger things. "I won't affect people doing that? Well, on to bigger things," I thought.

Secondly, it made me think about space. I want to learn about it now. I've never been the scientific child. I've never wanted to learn about atoms, or look under a microscope. But now? I'm curious as hell. I want to know more. I want to know studies. I want to learn about this unknown being that we call "outerspace". What's out there?

And finally, it made me want to go outside at midnight and scream. Scream at the top of my lungs, trying to make a difference, even though in the back of my mind I knew that the sound wouldn't press farther than my neighborhood.

"Can anybody hear me?"

So I'm gonna press on, learn more, love more, and hopefully in the end, make a difference. My future plans have been tweaked a little, but I know now more than ever that I need to go. I need to do. And above all, I need to love. We live in a mad, crazy, greedy world, but in the grand scheme of things, we're fragments. Faded things on a tiny planet. The Pale Blue Dot.