Voyager 1 has been flying non-stop for nearly 48 years since 1977. It has already travelled over 24 billion kilometres and is still not even one light-day away from Earth.
Let that sink in. Just one day of light-speed travel, and we haven’t reached it yet.
And here we are…
On this tiny, fragile speck called Earth, floating in infinite space,
Wasting our precious moment of life with ego, pride, inferiority, religious superiority, hatred, and greed.
All our religious places, ideologies, nations, and flags – they vanish into nothingness when seen from just a few kilometres above Earth, let alone from Voyager’s view.
The spacecraft carries a golden record of music and greetings from humanity, in case it ever meets another intelligent being.
Imagine if it did. What would we say we stood for?
It’s time we grow up, let go of imaginary divisions, ridiculous beliefs, and cults, and embrace the sheer miracle of being alive at all. Because in the grand movie of the universe, we’re not even a pixel on the screen.
Tavamithram Sarvada 