Nature is the Great Equalizer

It's easy to get entrenched in the day to day grind of work, while trying to balance meaningful relationships and a heightened sense of self. 

Too often we're convinced no one before has ever wrestled with the same doubts, challenges or heartache.

In those moments perspective seems absent, fleeting at best.

But I take great solace in how we matter but mostly don't. Life has existed before and will long after.

We are one out of roughly seven billion people on the planet. We're part of a species that is just one of ten million. 

There are at least 200 billion other galaxies, and if we were to measure mankind's footprint on the world on a map of the U.S. spanning from the Empire State Building to the shores of San Diego we'd make it a mere two steps out the building. 

Take great comfort in our brevity. 

Nature is the great equalizer. 

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