Essential Symmetry

I was reflecting on the basic symmetry of life, on how things always come back around and how things always repeat themselves, and I felt the weight of the repetitions bearing down upon my fragile mortal shell. Then I recalled the fractal images I have seen and remembered that repetitions can be beautiful as well. The lightness of the realization that I too am a repetition, that I belong to something large and lovely in its symmetry, lifted the weight from my back.

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." -Fight Club

I was born. Before me there was only a void where I would exist. Before me there was a space in the world into which I was born. And when I die I will leave a space where I was, a space in the minds of the people I have known and in the minds of people who have known me. All I can hope for in my life is that I fill the space of me; that I fill my space with life.

The world is so marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful, and so fragile.

Life is not a rehearsal.

~ Ilan Ramon ~

Israeli Astronaut lost on the Columbia Space Shuttle