The Tiny Pale Blue Dot
The best way I know to help another person who is feeling discouraged is to show them this picture. When we think of our worries and ourselves and we look at this picture at the same time… We are in that moment experiencing what it is to feel refreshingly humbled. The magnitude of what perspective can do for us hits home in this photograph. During even the most trying situations, comfort can be felt by seeing this tiny blue dot. “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone 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 t...