“When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, ’cause they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. - Neil DeGrasse TysonWe are all just a happenstance of the elements. Instead of worshipping Gods we're pretty sure don't exist, we should marvel that we're all on the planet at the same moment...remember, we weren't born alongside Spartacus, and we weren't born a thousand years before then...we just happen to inhabit a planet for whom the Internet, croissants, and Charles Dickens are accesssible. It's all luck. What if you were born 200 years ago? But you weren't, and you need to start realizing how lucky you are to be alive today.
6) “He/she’s going to a better place”
This one always cracks me up. The one thing we will never, ever know as humans is what it’s like after we die, but people sprain an ankle racing to be the first dipshit to say “Well, he’s in a better place.” I don’t know about that. First of all, right here we got blowjobs, cheeseburgers and baseball. We can go to the beach, tell Yo Mama jokes, we can pay an “escort” to put on blackface and pretend she’s Nell Carter from “Gimme a Break.” Seems to me like that’s tough to beat. I don’t know what’s on the other side and I never will, but I’ll take my chances with a world that has potato chips and “Alf” dvds. Secondly, if death means going to a place that’s better than here, and you’re sure enough of it to say it out loud, why wouldn’t you kill yourself?
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