Pale blue dot by Carl Sagan

Thanks to the breakthrough prize, Let me know the famous Pulitzer Prize writer Carl Sagan, his "pale blue dot" quote inspire us to think bigger and further.

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Hang in the past Vs. Expect the new challenges

Saw two videos about cinemas, one is about CJ4DX, one is about the last one theatre in Hawaii.

CJ4DX is a trendy high-tech cinema which ames at young-fashionable teenagers or those consumers live in crowed concrete world, those cucumbers who need to release stress or experience extremely feelings in fast speed live style. 

http://www.nytimes.com/video/business/media/100000003258668/movies-meet-theme-park.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

The last one theatre in Hawaii is more about humans, about friendship, lovely neighbourhood, these ppl don't care much more about the consumer world.

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003259816/the-last-cinema-in-paradise.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

"Social hug for the town"

"Not too far from nowhere, even further from nowhere"

"In the middle of nowhere, but also in the middle of everywhere"

"We have to adapt, I am afraid to left behind again"

Just think of the CNN show I saw last night part unknown, it was about Middle East countries, where ppl are more friendly than first tire cities in the world. Guess it's because of the material things shape ppl's perspective. 

http://edition.cnn.com/video/shows/anthony-bourdain-parts-unknown/season-4/iran/index.html

"What we saw, what we came back with, is a deeply confusing story. Because the Iran you see from the inside, once you walk the streets of Tehran, meet Iranians, is a very different place than the Iran we know from the news. Nowhere else I've been has the disconnect been so extreme between what one sees and feels from the people and what one sees and hears from the government."

What Anthony Bourdain said reminds me the brain wash theory: don't let media define what you see things. 

I totally agree what they say, "I saw it on media, but I need to go there myself."  

If you want to live well in rapidly changing big cities around the world, you have no choice of hang in the past, need to be highly adaptive, adapt the intangible stress from your crowd, adapt the craving for climbing to the top of the "successful" ladder. But seems the less well developed places, ppl there are less cold blood or craving for money, they choose the adapt the lifestyle which didn't change for a decade, but trying to find the simplest happiness of human beings. 

But this is the world we are going to live, ppl are prefer to move to mega cities to experience those inexperienced. Just need to be more creative and always be curious, around the unknown you either choose to learn or dismiss, which can lead you to different life paths.