USE YOUR IMAGINATION

If we would travel few kilometers further – even just to the stratosphere of our planet would be enough, I think we would appreciate our planet way more than we do now. I’m sure we would do things differently. Our problems would become so small. 

Our planet floating in space is like a dream to us, or a scene in a fantasy movie. 
Because you can’t see it as how the eyes of an astronaut see it, we forget (or just can’t imagine) that we our living in the big blue ball surrounded by black raw space. We forget that we are IN THE UNIVERSE and that our planet is not the center of everything. 

I haven’t seen our planet from up there, neither. But I was drawn to the mysterious universe since I was little. I was blown away, when my dad told me about another world that is above me. My imagination just exploded. We would go to our balcony and he would tell me about the stars, planets, he even pretend that the moving stars (objects) that I saw were comets – well it was just satellites passing us by. But he sure gave me something to feed my imagination. So, already back then, I was aware of an amazing coincidence that we are here, breathing, walking on this planet for so many years. It made me even wish to become an astronaut, just to see Earth from up there. 

Summer evenings bring me back to those memories of that little dreamy girl I was. Dreaming about the stars, galaxies, raw beauty that is above us... I imagine astronauts on the moon and even though I was not even born when Armstrong took a first step up there, it still feels so surreal that years ago someone was walking up there and saw our planet, just like we see our moon. 

Those scientists who have a chance to go into space, sure do come back with an amazing experience. Some of it is also shared in the video bellow. 

There’s a very, very, very little chance that I will see our planet from space, but I’m pretty sure the next generations will have that amazing opportunity. I’m going to keep on dreaming and be blown away about the beauty and rawness that is presented to us by scientists, and with it I will continue to paint my own imagination of the universe. On warm summer evenings, YOU try it as well. Go up to the hill, where there’s no lights and just look at the stars… some of them don’t even exist anymore, yet there light still shines on us. 

Paint your own imagination. Imagine that our sun is a little starry dot in the sky of another world (planet). Imagine our blue ball floating in the space with our little moon. It’s not hard to use your imagination. Just USE it. You’ll be blown away. 

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

― Albert Einstein