Just when you thought things matter

So, you had a bad day. You had one of those days that everyone and everything just seem to be concentrated on making your life crap. The stress, the grumpiness, the tiredness, the feeling like nothing really goes your way...

Well, I got something that might cheer you up!

Consider this:

There are more than one hundred billion galaxies in the Universe. In one galaxy, depending on its size, there are from ten million to about a trillion stars in galaxy. And our little blue planet is going around one of those stars. So, there are 1,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe, with an average of 10,000,000,000 stars in each. So, in total there are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars and our small planet goes around one of them.

Additionally;
The known universe is about 92–94 billion light-years in diameter. Our earth is 12,742 km in diameter. The largest distance you probably ever covered, by walking at a single walk is, at max, about 20 kilometers (and even that is a grand achievement). And you, of course are by average around 1.7 meters tall.

Remember that one light year is 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometers. That means, the size of the known galaxy is 92- 94,000,000,000 times 9,460,730,472,580.8, so about 889,308,664,422,595,200,000,000 kilometers (if I got it right).

The universe, according to mostly agreed data, is about 13.7 billion years old, our planet is 4.54 billion years, and you're lucky if you reach 80 years. Homo Sapiens has been around for about 200,000 years, about 6,000 years ago we started agriculture, and a few hundred years ago we started what we might call "the modern era".

Furthermore, there are about 6 billion people on this earth right now. You are one of them, and on global or even national level you probably don't have any significance. You are a number and a name in files, and you matter only to the people you know.

So, you are an insignificant member of an animal species that has existed only for 200,000 in a universe that has existed for 13,700,000,000 years. You're an insignificant particle (of 1.7 meters tall) of a planet that is orbiting one single star from the mass of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, in an universe that is 889,308,664,422,595,200,000,000 kilometers wide. So, how significant do you think your bad day really is? Does anyone care? Would anyone know if you didn't even exist. Do you even realize who unlikely your whole existence is? Don't worry, be happy.

If you're feeling a bit down today, don't feel sad. It's ok. If you feel insignificant and that no one cares, don't feel sad. You are insignificant and nobody gives a f*ck.

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.” - Charles Darwin