The Universe

Today at Barnes and Nobles I purchased a beautiful, Eco friendly journal that is 100% handmade by woman in Nepal using local raw material.  It's so cool! Now I am going to have to find a balance between writing in that and writing in my blog. 

When I search Google for "facts about" the first two things that came up were facts about dreams and facts about the Sun.  Sadly, the facts about dreams were surprisingly uninteresting.  However, I did find some fascinating facts about the Sun.  Apparently, the Sun accounts for 99.8% of the mass of the Solar System.  Most of the remaining 0.2% comes from Jupiter, so the Earth is only a fraction of a fraction of the mass of the Solar System.  In reality, we barely exist!

It's so crazy to think about just how small we are in comparison to the entire Universe.  The Solar System is sooo interesting and ginormous and mysterious and cool.  How far does it actually go?  There has to be more out there than we know about.  Are there other planets with life on them?  Ahhh I want to know. Trying to comprehend just how infinite the Universe is hurts my brain.  Therefore, I tend not to give it too much thought.