Dot

Do you see that little dot? Take another look at it.

Because, everybody you know lives on that little dot. Everybody you've known and will ever know. Everybody you have ever heard of. Everybody who ever existed. All happiness and all suffering, every birthday. Every religion and every ideology. Every couple in love, every king and all corrupt politicians. Every movie star, every football player and all orphans. Every one of them on that speck of dust, reflecting in the sunlight.

That little dot is an unbelievebly small stage in an unbelievebly big, empty space. And yet...On that small stage, every battle in history has took place. Every general who gained the victory and every bloodbath. Every riot and every party. Every happening you know of.

It's our home. As far as we know, that little dot is the only place where life has evolved. We have nowhere else to go to. Not yet. That's why we have to pay respect to our blue globe. We have to cherish it and protect it.

This picture is a beautifull demonstration of human arrogance and banality. Someone gets angry because the neighbour has parked his car in front of the window, again. What's the meaning of those things when you see that little dot is that infinite emptiness?

Carl Sagan, an American astronomer who died in 1996, could place our existance in a cosmic point of view like no one else could. To Sagan, this picture showed that we should take responsibility to be kind to each other and to keep this blue dot safe. It's the only home we will ever know.

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." (Indian saying)