Right Now- Anya Slepyan

Have you ever been to an air and space museum and seen one of the imax movies narrated by Neil Degrasse Tyson? He nonchalantly takes you on a mind blowing journey, from our minuscule planet to our tiny solar system to the pint-sized Galaxy, all of which make up only a pathetic percentage of the known universe. Then of course, there is the fact that the known universe is only a ridiculously small fraction of the actual universe(which is also ever-expanding, go figure). For thirty minutes, you are so caught up in how BIG the universe is that nothing else matters. The thought is so overwhelming that it forces us to pause and reconsider everything we know and think about. Honestly, this question/blog post is kind of like that to me. Of course, my immediate thought was what could be happening around the world right now, and the answer I came up with was "almost anything." Someone, somewhere, is training a tiger, eating a burrito, watching season 3, episode 9 of Game of Thrones (sorry), giving birth, sitting around a fire, saving a life, or destroying one. Anything that I can think of, someone is almost certainly doing, somewhere around the world. But this prompt said "somewhere in the universe," which is what brought me to this mini existential crisis. Because what is happening in our own world already seems so limitless, what could be happening in the indefinite expanses of the universe leaves me speechless. I can't find the right words (or really any words) to describe how much could be happening right at this second, trillions of light years away. It could be nothing. It could be another being interacting with their own world. Or it could be an event for which we don't even have a comparable concept. Who knows?