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Another cold morning in Al Ain...
It has become my habit to go out while it's still dark and just observe what's going on around at daybreak.
Today, as soon as I went off my door, I looked up and saw a bright star in the still black sky.
Then I surveyed the vastness of the black space that surrounds the star.
Ah, how huge the universe is!
That star must have been thousands or even millions of times bigger than the planet where I am right now, and yet the space just drowns it and makes it appear insignificant.
But, is it really insignificant?
I just imagined how that specific part of the enormous space would look like without that single star?
It would surely be different...for that single, minute star amidst that vast black space is the one that adds meaning to everything...at least to me--in my own internal universe--and, perhaps, to some other people in some other place who have gazed at that single star themselves.
Then, it dawned to me that the star and I have so much in common.
I'm not totally a stranger to that star, and if only that star is aware of itself, it would have known me for we are the same, in one way or the other.
The enormous universe I am with might make me look insignificant--in size, in capacity, in power.
I am something in this vast universe. Just like that single star in the black sky, I have become for some reason. The universe could have existed without me--a seemingly insignificant being, yet it existed with me.
And, this universe, just as without that single star, would be a totally different thing altogether without me...at least to me--in my own internal universe--and perhaps, to some other people who have gazed and experienced me themselves.
Happy day everyone!
