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Sometimes, I think about the universe.

Not the ~actual universe but more of the universe of people surrounding me, beyond me and more.
Have you ever thought about it?
I mean really thought about it? 


We are all just a street, a highway, a plane ride away…
I used to think about this all the time when traveling. I would be in the airport people watching, wondering where they were all rushing off to.


I would land in another city and notice all the people. Driving through the city I would realize that while this place was completely unknown and foreign to me, to others this was home.
This was their town. They knew where to go, where to stay, what to do. 


Usually, there is the ‘big city’ surrounded by a bunch of little cities — and in those little cities were communities all their own. Go deeper and there were neighborhoods, houses, families… All living their lives as usual. Each and every person a part of their surroundings just as much as I was a part of mine.
A different city, different state, even a different country… 


To me, it felt completely foreign. To the people around me, this was their home.


It’s so mind-numbingly simple when you think about it. Of course there are people all around. Of course they are living their lives like I am living mine.


I don’t know, when I first started ~realizing that there was more to life than me, myself and I — it rocked my world.


It gave me a better perspective on the world around me, rather than being so introspective that all I see is what’s in front of me.


I won’t lie, sometimes I lose that perspective. It’s so easy to… You get caught up in the day to day that you forget about the person next to you, down the street from you or across the world.


We’re all so interconnected without even realizing it. You’ve heard about 6 degrees of separation. It’s so true. Not just for celebrities//famous people but for everyone and anyone in the world.


It’s all so awe-inspiring to me. To think, that there’s someone else in the world who could be looking up at the stars just as I am, wondering about the greatness and majesty of it all… It just takes my breath away.


It’s in these moments that I wonder how anyone could doubt in the existance of God. How beautiful and wonderful is this world filled with people so interconnected?


There is hate. There is murder. There is evil.


But there is also love. And life. And good.


Sometimes, I think about the universe. And most of the time? I’m amazed.


Me ke aloha pau ole a hui ho.


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