Let me explain to you why I am crying right now.
Today was one of the worst days I’ve had without someone dying. Bad things have happened, very unpleasant and unfair, and I am hundreds of miles away from the top 10 people I would like to have hugs from. I woke up this morning to throw up the not-quite-cooked-enough bacon I ate last night. I did not do well on my final that may make or break my chances of being a full-time student again. I am again uncertain of my future; I don’t know what my life brings in any shape or form more than a few days out. And then some other really awful stuff I am not really at liberty to discuss in such a public forum.
But then John Zanussi posts this. I’ve seen this photo dozens of times before. That portion of it, right up there above all these letters that make words that make sentences that you read in you head and understand… that’s what you would see if you looked at a section of our sky into deep space through the eye of a needle.
My day was awful. But I am spinning around the center of this earth at a thousand miles an hour, around our sun at tens of thousands of miles per hour. And I am alive to type about how I have just again seen what billions of other little earths spinning around millions of suns look like in just one tiny section of our entire sky. And I can report that it is beautiful.
Fuck it, my life is awesome. That is why I am crying right now.
