Insignificance

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Something I like to do once in a while when I have a bit of peace and quiet is to contemplate how minute and insignificant I am

Buy yourself a bunch of grapes.

Sit down and pull a grape off a stem. Examine the grape. Put the grape on your head. Feel the grape’s energy flow through you. Think about how many grapes there are on your bunch. Think then how many bunches of grapes grew on the same vine as the bunch you have on your head. Think of how many individual grapes are on those bunches. Then think about how many vines, the farm which grew the grapes in, grew before they were harvested. Then think about how many grape vines there are in other grape farms and orchards, remember to include the grapes that go into the production of wine, grape juice, Madeira, medicines, brandy, raisins, sultanas and nefarious purposes.

Think about how many people in the world are currently eating grapes at that precise moment and how many grapes they have in their bunches…..

That’s one hell of a lot of grapes.

Then think about yourself. Think about how many people are in your surrounding area, think then about the street or block you are in and how many people are there, think also about the village or zone you are currently in, think about the people there and in the city nearby. Think then about all the people in cars, buses, trains and aeroplanes, those walking about, those inside buildings, those on top of buildings, those underneath buildings, if you can try and imagine them all going about their tasks doing their things while you are sat with your grape. Remember to think about all the people in the county, state or region you are in, then think about all those in the country you are in. Eating, sleeping, working, breathing, having sex, being born, giving birth, dying, sitting with a grape on their head. Think then about all those at sea or in the (surrounding countries if you are land locked) all those lounging on a beach nearby or out on a boat fishing or doing research or on a luxury liner. The people in aeroplanes, the people in private planes….think….Think of all those on different continents, milling about doing their thing, begging, working, eating, sleeping, wanking, birthing whatever….

That’s a hell of a lot of people….you are but one of those. Sat there with the grape on your head. You….all on your own on a seat…with a grape on your head. If it helps try to imagine each of those people eating a grape. How many grapes would it take to give each person a grape? How many grapes would be left over?

Think then of how many stars there are, all the vast number of tiny pin pricks. They too may have Earthlike planets, they too might have people sat there with a grape on their head(s) wondering how many people are out there with grapes on their heads. Concentrate. Imagine the energies of all these living people and grapes flowing to you and send yours out too to those sat with grapes on their heads no matter where…..be at one.

Take another grape off the bunch.

Eat it.

Feel insignificant.