A funny moment, for me at least

Last night I finally got around to watching a Netflix movie I've had sitting around for three weeks now. You may have heard of this one, Unfaithful with Diane Lane (who won three awards for her performance) and Richard Gere. My wife was not really interested at first, playing on the computer as I started it. About a half hour in, she says, I hope this picks up soon. Within a few minutes the computer closed and she was watching more closely. I thought it was a pretty good movie, a bit slow to start, but good none the less. In case you couldn't figure it out, its about an unfaithful spouse, in this case Diane Lane.

Now let me just say that I've always been a fan of hers, but in this movie, I find her incredibly sexy, she just keeps getting better with age. It certainly doesn't hurt that she's partially naked throughout the movie either. Her character just falls into this affair and she embraces her sexuality so damn well. The way her and this guy just fuck in this movie is super sexy, that dynamic she ends up creating, just, Wow. I don't know what else to say.

So today my wife calls me at work and tells me she may take the little one swimming around the time I get home. I asked her to let me know when just so I'd have an idea when they would be getting in. The first words out of her mouth are "why, are you going to meet with your girlfriend", real sarcastically of course. I paused for a second before I said, "Yea, but I can't decide which one". She didn't know how to take that, needless to say, I had a big grin on my face. I finally said, "you know, like the movie". "Oh yea" she said.

I think I like the idea that it makes her wonder now, there's definitely a bit of an undercurrent after that comment. Well that and the little comments she was making during the movie too. Anyhow, I just found it amusing in my little mind, forgive my minds little meanderings, I'm bound to write about them every now and again.

Bertrand Russell

*Warning* Science content ahead...

So I don't know if I'm the only one that does this, but have you ever just stood outside on a clear night looking up at the stars. The heavens spread before you encompassing all the black you see. And you start thinking about size.


Here are these massive balls of gas just floating in outer space, billions of them winking at you. Of those billions of celestial bodies, the closest one we know, our sun, is 93 million miles away and is about 109 times larger than earth. The way we see the sun is how it looked a little over 8 minutes ago because that's how long it takes the light to travel that distance. The closest star to us is 4.2 light years away, yes, that's right, light years, and that's the closest. The sun rotates around the Milky Way Galaxy approximately 24,000 to 26,000 light years from its center. It takes 225-250 million years to make one complete rotation around the Galaxy. Of course, ours is just one of the 200 billion Galaxy's in the observable universe.

Here I stand, all 6'1" of me, out in the cold night, looking up at the beautiful sky, my breath visibly rising before me. 

I ask myself at these moments, "How insignificant am I in the grand scheme of things in a universe this massive?"  "How lucky are we to even be alive, to be thinking, to be aware?"

Next time your out on a clear night, take a few moments to ingest the majesty of the cosmos and reflect on your own size and place in it. I do it often.

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