Apparently we just had too much. Too much light, too much noise and distractions. The cities never sleep, night is not really night, as long as there are lights all around us, making the night as bright as day. So they say this has a strange effect on us, because we don’t see the world around us like we are supposed to. We forget how big the Universe is, we forget how many stars there are on the sky and how small we really are, how fragile. Admiring the billions of stars in a clear sky, on a dark night, gives you that sense of reality which we start to lose nowadays. And I think I agree, partly. Why? Because I had the chance to see the amazing night sky, during my childhood, when I lived at countryside, every summer vacation, with my grandparents…and if I could have this sky everyday of my life, I would name myself lucky and I would sleep with the window wide open all summer long, no matter what…
And the noise…this is really a problem in the big cities, I think. We are never really in a dark, quiet world. Sometimes I think this is normal, and I don’t miss being in a quiet environment, but maybe it’s hard to decide what is good and wrong when you don’t have a choice. So this nice video makes some interesting statements and highlights some ideas which I think are awesome, but hard to make true, unfortunately..
