Starry Night!

Last night as I was getting into my car I looked up the skies, and saw that it was a sky full of stars. it’s not usual to see a starry night here in this city maybe this happened cause the skies were clear and cause of the heat that we are experiencing, as I was looking up the skies I realized that the most important moments in my life have occurred under very clear starry nights.

When I was touring the world last year, and in Langkawi Island to be specific I spent few hours in a boat in the middle of the ocean during the dead of night. I'm not sure how I managed to accomplish this but I was alone, there I was, late at night in the middle of the ocean, lying on my back staring up at the sky, no city light to distract me. Above me was a vast expanse of sky and nothing but stars, thick stars, more stars than you can ever see in the city. At that moment, sitting in my boat under a very large sky, I felt the usual cliché’s thoughts: I felt like the smallest most insignificant speck in a very large universe. All my problems at the time -- feeling kind of lonely and depressed and what the future is hiding for me, all seemed rather unimportant, given all those stars and how many there were of them compared to the little thing that was me.

As I kept going from place to place and when I was in South Africa I had the occasion to relive this experience. I went scuba diving on a boat in the ocean, And on that boat I sat in the prow and watched the sun go down on the horizon, watched the sun pass beyond the edge of the world, and the stars come up as the light darkened into orange to purple to blue to black. All I saw was a thick blanket of stars above, and below was dark smear of ocean. No land, no street lights, no reflection of the city; nothing but stars and sea and me, alone on the boat feeling like there was nothing else left in the world to hold onto.
I figure that in our small little existences we have two, maybe three moments that define the way we live, that we remember as the most important moments of our lives. For me, they have always involved the feeling of being one sole person under a massive blanket of stars.

I figure that if you tallied up the most important moments of a thousand of us, a hundred thousand of us, we'd come up with a wide, rich, complex variety of experiences.