This One Idea Will Change How You Think About Your Entire Life

this video is sponsored by blinkist get a seven day free trial 25 off link is premium and enjoy two memberships for the price of one by using the link in the description [Music] 13.8 billion years ago there is as far as we know nothing 13.6 billion years ago a space rapidly expands a slew of particles scatters across it a Skyline of stars begins to form 12.9 billion years ago gravity brings together matter from across the open Cosmic sea to form the first galaxies islands of vast localized gas and dust and Stellar objects held together across gravitational strings 4.5 billion years ago a cloud of gas and dust orbits a young star in a quiet region of an ordinary Galaxy it coalesces Tighter and Tighter eventually forming a planet a single planet in a single Galaxy amongst incalculable others Across the Universe 3.8 billion years ago life on this planet begins 2.6 million years tools are made and used by living things 150 000 years ago language abstract thinking and the burgeoning of culture begins on the scale of one minute the entire history of modern Humanity lasted roughly the last eight ten thousands of a second put differently if the entire history of the universe were compressed into one day modern Humanity wouldn't appear until after the last single second a blink and each of our individual lives take place within the second lasting around four ten thousands of that fraction of a fraction of a fraction and the universe has only just begun here we are within this tiny infinitesimal moment of time so tied up with it with everything we are and everything we do we think this sliver of something means everything because to us it does but to everything we mean nothing when referring to the pale blue dot photo taken by the Voyager 1 space probe showing Earth from a record distance away Carl Sagan said on that everyone you love everyone you know everyone you ever heard of every human being whoever was lived out their lives the aggregate of our joy and suffering thousands of confident religions ideologies and economic doctrines every Hunter and forager every hero and coward every Creator and destroyer of civilization every King and peasant every superstar every supreme leader every saint and sinner in the history of our species live there on a mode of dust suspended in a Sunbeam think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and Emperors so that in glory and Triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a DOT our posturings our imagined self-importance the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light our planet is a lonely Speck and a great enveloping Cosmic dark one day you appear on this planet soon the days turn into a flip book your life becoming an animated film containing everything you know and care about everything you fear and dread but what feels like a film to you will in fact be more like a single frame in an infinite film to everything else you don't know how you got here you don't know why you're here you don't know how any of this really works or where any of it is going no one does and before you know it you won't be here at all no one will don't worry like the entire history of the universe before you the entire future of it will be over before you know it as well if you're lucky in let's say 80 years you close your eyes for the last time your children grandchildren friends and family whatever amount you still have left if any attend your funeral they cry for a little while then they mostly move on they have to in order to survive themselves in 200 years all direct traces of you are lost memories of you how you looked talked and acted what you did and didn't do the distant blur of your story have all dissolved away with the last person who knew of you by now all perceptions of you had become inaccurate distortions and projections anyway void of any authentic connection if you did something especially noteworthy during your lifetime direct traces of you may continue for a little while but not much longer in 100 000 years the 21st century is but a strange section in the record of History occasionally reflected on by individuals that no longer relate to it in any meaningful way 5 million years most of the Earth's pre-existing species are extinct due to the background Extinction rate they've all been replaced with new species one billion years there is no life left on Earth 5.5 billion years the sun cools and expands consuming the Earth completely a once Lively Planet billions of years old wiped out without a trace a grand finale of a light show with no Ovation the sun is dead the Earth is gone the universe doesn't notice there is so much time left 100 trillion years the last remaining stars begin to die fading out and burning up the grave sites are marked by the Tombstones of newly formed black holes the universe becomes an expanding graveyard of the bones of evaporating stars one Duo decillion black holes swallow all the remaining stray matter of the universe they will soon be All That Remains we will be here a while most of the universe's lifetime is spent in these demented elderly years between one Google and one Googleplex the last massive black hole evaporates one last explosion of light and energy occurs closing the final eye of the universe time is no longer everything that has ever happened has now insofar as everything is concerned never happened the universe returns to nothing and nothing happens forever of course this is all speculation the universe could be infinite it could be cyclical it could be something else entirely the story of the universe may have gone and may continue to go nearly an infinite number of different ways most of which we likely can't even begin to imagine let alone estimate and predict what we can know however is that somehow we are here a part of that story of all the things that could exist of all the things that never will for some reason we are each one of the things that does while we are here we will experience things we will cry we will laugh we will hopefully love we will know what it means to have awoken as an embodied collection of dead particles onto a strange lushly coated wet rock floating through a vast expanse of energy and matter made from and destined for apparent nothingness we will worry we will dread we will try we will fail we will move on we will die we will be forgotten but for now we are here in truth even if we could to fully take in the profundity of what is going on in every moment would rupture our ability to carry out the everyday but likewise not considering the absurdity and Insanity of what's taking place around and through us at least on occasion can cause us to easily become submerged into falsity into mundanity into misunderstanding into unnecessary anxiety and stress while we are here our lives naturally consume us but in the end insignificance consumes all life and considering this at least on occasion can perhaps help us better see and decide what we truly want to be consumed by while we are still here because soon the rest of the universe will continue on indifferently until it all ends or continues on forever regardless you almost certainly won't be around for any of it and it will all be over so so quickly blink that's how long the rest of the universe will feel [Music] this video was sponsored by blankest with the new year now unfolding in the sands of time piling up more behind us now is always the time to do and work toward the things we want in life regularly reading and learning is an essential component of this of becoming who you are and understanding more about the world crucial to reading and learning however is efficiently locating the right books and sufficiently understanding their ideas otherwise you can easily spend unnecessary amounts of time and struggle to retain important information blinkist is an amazing app that helps you avoid this problem 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Published: Wed Jan 25 2023