If nothing else, love the one you are with...that is YOU!

Have you ever compare our (Human Beings) life span with the universe? How insignificant we are? A human life is an insignificant short time and the lifetime of the human species is very small compare to the Earth's lifetime. When we look at our problems in comparison with the universe, it is so insignificant, even none existent.  Don't get me wrong, I think humans are amazing, beautiful, brilliant, good, bad, terrible and most of all intelligent and capable of doing many great things. But, once in a while, I wish we can stop and consider considered our part in the great context and look upon our part as it really is. I think it would help us to live our lives in better and use our intelligence in a more dignified way.

Let us put some information to put things in perspectives for us:

• Our planet Earth, which is composed of the dust of dead stars, spins at leisurely pace in the big black universe. (without our help) It orbits a middle-aged star born of the same stardust approximately 5 Billion years ago.(we were not even come to existence.) It sits in an arm of galaxy born of some 10 billions years ago, in a universe born about 13 billions years ago. (Do we even understand what Billions of year's means?)

• The magma in the Earth's interior continuously moves, plate tectonic movement, which means that new crust is formed and destroyed with a few centimeters each year, the Earth's atmosphere, which ensures that the temperature is the right for us to live in, high pressure and low pressure generates winds and weather, ocean circulation generates currents and transports heat and humidity. (All this is going on without our involvement and exist in a sensitive equilibrium.)

I like what Danny Glover's character said to Richard Gere's character in the movie 'Grand Canyon' …"Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? It's pretty, but that's not the thing of it. You can sit on the edge of that big old' thing and those rocks... the cliffs and rocks are so old... it took so long for that thing to get like that... and it isn't done either! It happens right there while you're watching it. It's happening right now as we are sitting here in this ugly town. When you sit on the edge of that thing, you realize what a joke we people really are... what big heads we have thinking that what we do is not going to matter all that much... thinking that our time here means didly to those rocks. Just a split second we have been here, the whole lot of us. That's a piece of time so small to even get a name. Those rocks are laughing at me right now, me and my worries... Yeah, it's real humorous, that Grand Canyon. It's laughing at me right now. You know what I felt like? I felt like a gnat that lands on the ass of a cow chewing his cud on the side of the road that you drive by doing 70 mph. Insignificant!"

So, what do I think our role is in the great scheme of things? If you have been reading my other block, you probably would say love and that is exactly what I believe. Let us love everyone and everything but before we take that big of a challenge, let us start by loving each other.

I know some people are so much easier to love than others, are not they? Well this is a challenge for you today, one that has a great pay off for you no matter what. Studies have proven that every emotion sends a chemical reaction throughout our bodies. Gratitude and laughter heart healing serotonin throughout every cell. On the other hand, stress and anger fire up the cortisol and adrenalin; giving us that spare tire and cravings for sugar, creating those high's and the inevitable crashes afterwards.

Today, if nothing else, think of loving the one you are with. That would be you J If you feel like taking more challenge, try to send consciously thoughts of love to any person you find difficult to love in the past. Wish them a way out of the thorny part of their problem which makes them difficult. Just for today, try to suspend any thought of retribution or ill will toward them.

Love is not about them who make it easy or hard for us to love. Love is an inside job. It is about who we are. Love is about what lives and grows in us everyday.

Just for one day look at life with amazement, get up in the morning and look at the world and take anything for granted. Look at everything as a phenomenal; everything as incredible. Be amazed. After all, the precious moments we have here on Earth are like a drop of dew and we should cherish them before they disappear with the morning Sun.