As I sit here watching the the lunar eclipse I began to feel humbled yet again..

In one way I think of this as something kind of silly. I mean so many of us are completely awed by this event and here I am 5am in the morning sitting outside looking at the moon for no reason but to watch the Earths shadow pass over it.

But then I start thinking deeper. I look at the moon and in my mind I picture the solar system I picture this timed event occur utilizing 3 massive bodies floating in space. I try to fathom just the distance between me standing/sitting here right now and the moon that I'm gazing upon. And then my mind pulls back further and I think of all the other things that would stun and boggle the mind to view the are going on elsewhere in our galaxy, this very moment stars are forming, stars are dying, black holes are devouring gas and matter. Even in our own solar system, Jupiter and Saturn are having such massive storms all the time, for billions of years constantly in chaos. I think of the possibility that right this moment under Jupiter's moon Europa there could be alien sea life swimming around that we aren't even aware of yet. And now I'm pondering somewhere out there could there be some thing else, something intelligent on another planet or moon somewhere in the cosmos looking up at an eclipse of their own this very moment.

I come back to a more local thought process and now wonder will our society allow us, strive us to go back to the moon as many of us want? Will we ever actually achieve going to mars in person?

I've concluded among this thinking that while to some it may just be a shadow over the moon...but to others like myself this eclipse is yet another reminder of how wonderous and vast our universe is and how insignificant we truly are.

Sorry for the rambling...