Tonight I found my cosmic perspective again. I must have misplaced it.
I lay on my back at night and just looked up at the sky. It’s a good time for that, as you can see the Perseids in the form of shooting stars.
The cosmic perspective allows us to place what is happening on our planet in the larger context of the cosmos. And everything becomes smaller, less important. Problems suddenly no longer seem so big on a cosmic scale – after all, they only affect one planet at most.
But we really do have the biggest problems for us right now – the climate crisis affects the entire Earth and everyone who lives on it. So one thought has become firmly entrenched: we as humanity are – from a cosmic perspective – currently in a probationary period. Will we manage to look after our planet responsibly so that we can survive in the long term? We shall see!