For this spiritual exercise I wanted to go to the roof and stargaze, but because it was raining, I watched the rain from my room. There were two quotes from Aurelius’s Meditations that I stood out to me when I read it, the first being: “How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them” (1). I have always had the desire to leave my mark on the world. I want to go into politics, and specifically, become President of the United States. While I do not believe this will likely happen, it is something I aspire to be. It was once pointed out to me that without fame, three generations after you die, you are forgotten. I contemplated on how even if you are famous enough to be remembered
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the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not” (2). The present is the only existing moment. What happened in the past cannot be changed, and what is going to happen in the future is unknown. While the future should be planned for, the present is the most important moment, because it is the only thing that is real. While I do not believe that we should live everyday as if it were our last, I do believe that we should live for and in the present. Too often I find myself worrying about the future, when in the scale of the time and space, it does not matter. The future does not exist until it becomes the present so it should not be worried about. Another thing I thought about while contemplating the vastness of the universe, was the possibility of aliens. While I am open to the possibility, the possibility of intelligent life forming and developing at the same time as humans is unlikely. The human race young compared to the rest of the universe. Aliens may have existed billions of years ago and gone extinct or humans may go extinct before other intelligent life evolves. The universe is so vast, and time is infinite before and after
the present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose a thing if he has it not” (2). The present is the only existing moment. What happened in the past cannot be changed, and what is going to happen in the future is unknown. While the future should be planned for, the present is the most important moment, because it is the only thing that is real. While I do not believe that we should live everyday as if it were our last, I do believe that we should live for and in the present. Too often I find myself worrying about the future, when in the scale of the time and space, it does not matter. The future does not exist until it becomes the present so it should not be worried about. Another thing I thought about while contemplating the vastness of the universe, was the possibility of aliens. While I am open to the possibility, the possibility of intelligent life forming and developing at the same time as humans is unlikely. The human race young compared to the rest of the universe. Aliens may have existed billions of years ago and gone extinct or humans may go extinct before other intelligent life evolves. The universe is so vast, and time is infinite before and after