After reading a great deal about the Universe...I wish i had'nt.

[secrets22]

Reading about the solar system,moons and Planets and our blessed Earth I realise how insignificant we really are,we are just a tiny dot in a vast unending universe,and i believe man will destroy our planet,To begin with there are too many of us,coupled with greed,corruption,evil and avarice ...sometimes i wish i did'nt read so much as it can turn so many of my beliefs upside down..Its no wonder i get nightmares.

[sassy59]

Hello secrets, I think we’re a very important part of the solar system. Yes we’re only a dot but what a dot. Many on earth are wonderful and caring which I believe can and does offset the evil. We won’t let anyone destroy our planet so please believe that. There has always been greed and corruption and there always will be but good will overcome.

Look up at the moon and stars on a clear night and see the wonder that’s just sitting there. It’s truly beautiful.

Don’t have nightmares and stay safe and well. Hugs to you. Xxxxx

[Hidden in reply to sassy59]

Hi sassy59, what a lovely response to secrets22's post. I find I do best when I don't consider too deeply what the universe and earth are all about. I loved your comment about just looking at the moon and stars on a clear night and enjoying it for its beauty without wondering too deeply about it all. I guess there are some really deep mysteries about life which are more than we can fathom! xxx

[sassy59 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you Callendersgal. I also do better not considering anything too deeply. It’s a bit of a coping mechanism I suppose.

The universe is immense and I love being a tiny part of it. Some mysteries need to remain so.

Take care xxxx

[Hidden]

Hi secrets22, I agree this can be a really scary thing to contemplate for too long. It's all too vast! I think the time's coming when we really are going to have to manage our environment in a much better way. We can't keep using up what are not inexhaustible resources at the speed we are.I do think though that nature attempts to redress the balance when things are out of kilter. And sadly the pandemic may well be a part of that redressing. Viruses arise to thin the herd a little and it's just that as earthlings we don't like the prospect of that happening!

[sassy59 in reply to Hidden]

Well said as always Callendersgal. Xxx

[FredaE in reply to sassy59]

We have been looking at the moon again tonight sailing in a sky tumbled with clouds and as always totally unaware of us. The universe is so immensethat we have great difficulty grasping it. We have ants under our paving stones who cannot comprehend the vastness of our world and I sometimes wonder whose ants we are, scurrying about our own little concerns, worrying about power and inflluence and GDP

We cope with the help of concepts like the man in the moon who is always smiling and mother earth who looks after us.

We cannot destroy the earth - it has seen too many species grow too demanding and causing their own extinction but the earth remains, changed but still there,

Take the wonderful ammonites found fossilised in the Jurassic coast. They started off as simple snaillike creatures growing a bigger compartment to their shells as they grew and needed more space. Times were favourable and when some of them started to elaboratethe dividing walls they were able to do so. Times continued good for them and ammonites got more and more elaborate until each division was a fantastic thing like a snow crystal in its complexity. Still times were good and the designs got more and more beautiful - and needed more resources to create. Then the resources dried up and no more could be created and the species cecame extinct replaced by something simpler and less greedy. The dinosaurs were the same, starting from litle lizardy things and growing over the millennia into a range of huge greedy monsters. Something cut off the food supply and they all went. Small proto- mammals which had been creeping about in the nooks and crannies moved into the empty space and became the wold we see today. Now it is our species treading the same path to destruction. Our trouble is not that we do not have brains and don't know what we are doing. We know but do not have enough brain to realise that this is serious. We ridicule far sighted people as mad and go back to choosing yet another T shirt we don't need. But the earth will thrive without us The moon riseand sunset will be just as lovelywithout us wtching them

If you want to help support people who say we must change and that if everyone makes small changes it will help by changing how people think about this giant money tree we live in.

I had better shut up before I get thrown out

All the best for the New Year

[sassy59 in reply to FredaE]

Thank you for that wonderful reply Freda. Lots to think about and I certainly have hope for the future of humanity. I hope our grandchildren take good care of our planet earth. They are the future.

Happy New Year to you. Take care xxxx