I’m insignificant!

Cried the wee grain of sand;

Gather all my numbers,

Spanning deserts and coasts,

Count us all!

Look up at the sky;

Look past it!

The stars outshine the sand.

I’m insignificant!

Cried the star we call a sun;

One hundred thousand light years,

One hundred billion stars,

The Milky Way!

Watch as we churn;

And me-

An average star among brighter.

I’m significant!

A speck of dust suspended in sun;

This planet you call Earth.

Where we look up at the sky,

And are scared by it’s vastness;

Our smallness.

And forget that we too

Have significance.

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“I’M SIGNIFICANT! (screamed the dust speck.)”

-Calvin, Bill Watterson’s _Calvin and Hobbes_