Simplicity
Sunita Williams is a United States Naval officer and a NASA Astronaut She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds three records for female space travelers: longest spaceflight (195 days), number of space walks (four), and total time spent on spacewalks (29 hours and 17 minutes). (Wikipedia)
I happen to watch her interview on TV on a news channel. Apart from other interesting things that she did convey on the interview, one thing that was so thrilling was the way she described how she saw the earth from space. I am unable to quote, but she said that from space the earth looks one and not as separate continents. The lines that we create to divide the world as continents is just on paper. Every individual is a citizen of the world.
I do believe so and I am sure, a lot of us do.
This is something that I speculated quite some time ago and expressed it as Simplicity. Sunita Williams has described it so much more beautifully in words. I admire her.
posted by Rachana at 6:26 am
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I feel like that holds true not only to nationality and world unity, but also to so many other aspects of people. Gender, Race, Orientation, Beliefs...we are all humans aren't we?
It amazes me how caught up we as a species are in our differences. We are so focused on getting the water in the bird bath to just the right level that we completely miss the hurricane that is about to hit.
That is the bottom line. We are all humans.
We all have a mind of our own and still majority of us will not even beg to differ in our thinking, forget about actions.
We just end up being a bunch of blind followers.
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