Aug/Sept 2024 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 50

When you reflect on your life from the perspective of the space station view , you can re-enter the flow and surrender that ’ s required to exist within a reality where large amounts of your experience are beyond your control . And those aspects that are in your control ? They may not be as earthshatteringly crucial and delicate as you fear .

It opens space for grace and the release of rigidity . It fosters an invitation for you to marvel at the reality that , regardless of supernovae exploding mere galaxies away , we were granted the luck that Earth maintains the sweet-spot distance from our sun that allows warmth without incineration while providing rare availability of liquid water and breathable oxygen necessary for us to exist at all .

Alive as a conscious speck in the midst of the sands of time and space , living your daily life and microwaving your leftover mac-ncheese lunch at the office .

Far from being a nihilistic impulse to minimize the grudges and worries of daily life , this perspective of the space station view invites sacredness back to your experience through awe and wonder — two qualities many have lost touch within the hustle and bustle of modern-day living .

We get so inundated and obsessed with our daily tribulations , building mountains of drama for ourselves that wreck our nervous systems and our relationships alike , that we overlook all there is to marvel about . We forget to wonder at the miracle that any of us exist at all .

I , myself , often to fail to remember that , along with the high unlikeliness that life would form and evolve on Earth at all , the fact that my great-grandparents met each other during a random social moment and came together to create my parents , who , out of all the genetic variations possible , created me , it ’ s just so humbling and re-orienting . Also , it ’ s profoundly relieving to surrender to the reality that there ’ s more I don ’ t know than what I do . It removes pressure .