I was headed home today from the Wisconsin Film Festival.
While driving, I was thinking about the grass next to the highway. Then I started to think how the grass I was speeding past is made up of small individual blades of grass.
Each blade of grass is an individual. From my point of view, the grass is more or less the same, but that is from my perspective. The reality is that each blade is a living organism. An individual.
This mental exercise brought me to the fact that there are over 7.1 billion people in the world. That is 7,100,000,000. It is hard to imagine a number so big.
At that large of a number, it made me realize we are blades of grass. From a distance, we all look the same. Sure, we have different physical characteristics such as height, skin color, facial features, etc.
These things are arbitrary when looking from a scale as big as 7.1 billion.
How does an individual stand out from the majority? What makes one person more successful, interesting, or have more value than the next?
Are you (or me) more important than a blade of grass?
