This text is for when you are feeling stressed or anxious and you want to remind yourself why there is no reason to worry. If, you are looking for a reason to stop worrying about unnecessary things in life.

You are somewhere here

Imagine the globe as a whole. Feel free to look at the picture next to the text. And then say this to yourself: I am here. Somewhere on this globe, I am here. 

We cannot see you. But you are here. Somewhere on this globe, you are here. The world is big. There are countless people out there, but you are here. Maybe you’re in Los Angeles, or maybe you’re in Berlin, or maybe you’re in Bangalore, or maybe in Manila. It doesn’t matter where you are. But you are here. Somewhere out there you are here.

You don’t know why or what you’re here for. Nobody knows. All you know is that you’re here, magnetized out there somewhere. 

The world we live in

The globe, the strange, lushly coated, wet rock, floating in its intended position in the endless void. That rock you’re standing on is tiny, and you’re tiny in comparison.

If we zoom out a bit and look at the galaxy far away, we are even tinier in comparison. The rock in which we live is then just a tiny little rock in the void. 

Your tiny self sits on that tiny rock, surrounded by that dark, massive, infinite space that is simultaneously everything and nothing. 

This rock will give you life. It will give you everything you need to live on its crust for a certain amount of time. The time you spend on this rock can feel like a while or like no time at all. 

It feels like a single frame in a movie that never ends. An image that could be removed without changing anything in the movie. In this image, you will live on these rocks until the moment life ends. You will have no idea how life ended. No one knows. 

Your name tag

If you are lucky, you will have some friends, family members, or even a lover who will be sad for a while. They will miss you, of course. But the sadness will pass, too. Your dearest ones will make an effort not to miss you anymore. Because being sad all the time and missing someone is tiring and upsets your life. Your loved ones might consider therapy to cope with the grief. However, they could also use techniques to overcome the grief. They will certainly be reasonably successful with this. But even they will not live on this rock, on this crust, forever. 

If you were a leader, if you were perhaps artistically gifted or very smart, then you will certainly be remembered for about longer. However, most of these people will never have known you, so they won’t think about you for long, and if they do, it will be a misconstruction of you based on their ideals. 

Big or small, they will all lose your name tag and be of no importance to anyone.

A Reason To Stop Worrying

Whatever you’re nervous about now, whomever you’re nervous about now. Maybe the first date, a job interview, a big presentation, an important exam, or just an upcoming difficult conversation. Maybe you feel like you’re paralyzed with fear at the thought. Possibly you feel that the course of your life depends on this single moment. That, the fate of reality rests on your shoulders. But this is not the case.

Maybe you are worried that you will do the wrong thing or fail. Maybe you will fail. But all will be well. Because for some reason, against all conceivable odds, you are on this strange rock. This planet that gives birth to live. A life that gives birth to more life. You have this playground in the unknown vacuum that you can make your own. The only mistake you can make is not to realize this. 

Relax and enjoy the hilarious and captivating absurdity of it all. That all means nothing beyond yourself, and to find freedom and inspiration in that thought. 

To explore and connect with what it can mean to be you on a rock, in a solar system, in a galaxy, in a universe, in a who-knows-what. 

Worst case

Be kind and decent. Have fun, love, laugh, cry, try, fail, live, and remember that no matter what happens, you can still do all that, no matter what you do in life. At your best, you try your best, you are yourself, and you do what you can do. With compassion, honest effort, and understanding. And in the worst case, you keep going and you keep doing more than anything before.

By failing, you can only learn from it and move on and look forward. Failure is part of life. A reason to stop worrying and not to let yourself get down, but to stand up and say to yourself let’s continue and make the best out of it.

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