Considering I barely passed Geology 101 with a 51% to get my undergrad science credit (whew!), I spend a lot of time these days thinking about dinosaurs, geologic time, and the makeup of our planet.
I know we’re hardwired for it as a species but I also think a lot about how all humans (hi!) get really worked up about really insignificant stuff in light of the fact that most humans having less than a century or so on this ~4.5 billion year old planet.
One of my mantras is “It all matters and nothing matters” and it all matters because in our brief time on this planet, we should strive to be kind, generous, empathetic to make the world a bit better when we leave it.
But nothing matters because generally, we’re all specs of dust who leave very little lasting legacy – so few of us write a book or get a song on radio or whatever it is that measures “impact” beyond maybe reproducing and sending our genes further forward into geologic time.
So anyhow, those are a few thoughts I had after looking at a picture of a pretty dinosaur tooth! 😉
(via Reddit)
