On the other hand...

There is alway another perspective to look at.

If you meditate and become aware of your thoughts and feelings, you will be more able to shift perspective.
And you will be aware of that your perspective changes without your will.

An interesting and very broad way to look at our world is big history.

Let's take the history on life on Earth.
Its 65 million years since the dinos disappeared.
It's just 10 000 years since we started to be farmers.

We have changed the life on earth for many living beings because of that.

But since 10 000 years in the history of our planets is not much, it may not mean so much in the long run.

A man with an even bigger perspective is Sean Carroll.

He is a cosmologist and professor of physics.

He is interested in the questions that some thinks is not necessary, because they seem impossible to answer as: what happened before the Bing- Bang? Are there more universes outside our universe?
And what about time?

If  there are many universes there for sure are life like the one we have on other planets.

If species dies on our planet others are born on other planets.

And if we have the view that all is one. Voilá! Life is wonderful - there are lots of love and wonderful nature around. And even different nature laws in different universes.

And if one universe dies there will be billions of others around.

That's really a big history perspective...

Here is Carroll speaking in a TED-talk:







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