The Questioning Librarian

You know, sometimes in life it is far too easy to take the myopic view, one in which you are unable to look past your own problems to see the greater picture. It is easy to slide into a sad state, pitying oneself and raging against the unfairness of it all, though at this point I'm so cynical that one would think that I am beyond pointless questions of "fairness", a very trite notion with no basis at all in reality. It is too easy to stop looking past one's own problems to take in the world around them, to slide into a gloom so pervasive that all else is blocked out. When that state of mind happens to describe myself, this video helps. One's own problems surely seem tiny in comparison to the vastness and grandeur of the Universe as science has begun to reveal. It is rather difficult to be sad about a minute problem when you realize the sheer scale of things. Enjoy. "The Known Universe" by the American Museum of Natural History