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Vistas
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21 Oct 2003
I long for vista to look over, a great expanse reaching to the horizon to peer out at from a window or gaze upon from remote point. I am beginning to understand why people flock to these places, why they actively seek them out. Spending so much time engrossed in our own lives, in our own problems shirnks the world, confines us to our own self-built microcasms of existence. These vistas, however, allow us to glimpse out upon the rest of the world, if not another world entirely. While we look out we escape our own shrunken worlds and lives and are reminded that we are a seemingly infintesimally small component of the world, of the universe. While humbling to most, humiliating to those with egos; there is peace in this knowledge. For when we accept our inconsequence to the universe and to much of the world, our problems which are always smaller than we are, cease to exist. When we reach this conclusion, we find solace.
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