Moments of realisation, Humanity and fragility.

Just re-watched my honeymoon video. It was on the Maldivian island of Mayuufushi.

One evening we were sat there on the end of of a long sand-bar that stretched out far into the Indian ocean. It was at night, and was clear. The night sky was jet-black, the blackest night sky I had ever seen. The stars were the brightest I had ever seen. It was at this moment that it dawned on me how fragile, precious, how insignificant humans are.

But then I remember this.................................

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There are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way,an average size galaxy.Latest computer calculations give a figure of 500 billion galaxies in the known universe.And who knows how many universes there are in or parallel to the the universe,if you see what i mean.Mind boggling,almost as complex and difficult to comprehend as putting together MFI furniture used to be.

Ikea have taken that particular baton.

MFI got so bad that I would unwrap it in the car park....to check it was all there and not damaged, not surprised when it folded.....the problem at the time was there wasn't really anyone else in the market for cheapish furniture.

Our universe could be contained in a speck of dust on another planet.

My mum would freak, dust the size of solar systems? We need a bigger Hoover!