Carl Sagan, who convinced NASA to turn Voyager 1 around for that final portrait, wrote: “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… There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.”
I’m not saying abandon your ambitions or stop caring about your life. I’m saying: care about your life more . But also remember that your neighbor’s life is on the same dot. The child born in a refugee camp. The whale singing in the deep. The last patch of rainforest. All of it, same pixel. Little Blue Dot
Scroll through your feed. You’ll see arguments. Sales pitches. Breakups. Lunch. A war on the other side of the world. A meme about a cat. A politician lying. A stranger crying. Carl Sagan, who convinced NASA to turn Voyager