Poll: How do view your life? As a grain of sand or as the universe?

Question

Answer instictively. These are two different ways people think of their lives. Nothing against or for anybody. But which is you? Do you compare your life to a grain of sand on an endless beach or to the one and only universe?

Answer 1

Both. The mustard seed does not expand and thye universe does not shrink. Every drop in the ocean is the ocean and is itself.

Answer 2

Sand.  No one is important enough to identify with the universe, so far.

Answer 3

My life is like a shiny grain of of sand, trying to outsparkle the others, and reach the vast ocean, yet only meeting its spray.

Answer 4

I am the grain of sand that got stuck in the carpet steamer.

Answer 5

I'm a peculiar, unique and special sand particle in this vast cosmos.

Answer 6

I am just a small miniscule part of the vast universe.

Answer 7

It depends a lot of the time I think I'm the universe and maybe I am special but when somethings bad or reality hits me I feel like a grain of sand

Answer 8

The Universe.

There is no guarantee that it stretches beyond my perception, and all my organs of perception are located within my body.  

Perhaps the universe exists only because I think it does.  I have no evidence to the contrary.

I choose to believe that I have personal responsibility for my actions, which would not be the case if I were merely a grain of sand blown along before the wind.  If I thought that I was just a grain of sand, I could blame the wind for all my actions, and this seems like cowardice.  I would have no self-respect.

Answer 9

We're one with the universe , as the universe .

Answer 10

Actually, neither. The great scientists, physicists, astronomers and cosmologists have concluded that we humans may well be the most complex and intelligent form of life in the Universe.

But saying that does not mean an individual is 'The Universe', as the former is so microscopic compared to the vast outer space, out there. Nor should we be a piece of inanimate matter like the grain of sand, for that will make us lifeless and insignificant.

So my life is viewed as a small cog in the huge wheel of Life, the Universe. I do not place a huge importance on myself nor degrade myself  to almost nothingness. I would not even imagine i am God or a grain of sand, for that thinking would drive me crazy, straight away.  I shall try to seek the middle-way, instead. As one of God's creatures,  I just go with the flow of other living humans and try to live in harmony with them, including  the animals and the plants. That would be a healthier, wiser, and more realistic approach.

Answer 11

dust in the wind

Answer 12

Grain of a sand is way too big for me when I feel my life is Micro and Entire Universe becomes too small when I feel my life is a Macro.

Regards

Vinay

Answer 13

universe. i've never liked sand.

Answer 14

Being that my experience is all that I have, it is essentially all there is.  Anything that I can "imagine" (your experience or death or god or transcendence) is essentially purely that, a make-believe guess.  Whether it is based on science, religion, or feeling-all of these things come through the channel of self.  Even if a God decides to provide an transcendent experience, it is the solitary self that experiences it.  It is impossible to view "the big picture" or "the beach of sands" in a true external way.  Therefore life is the only and one universe.  If I add the caveat "for me" it is still acceptable, because there is no "for you".  I am interested on how people would rate their happiness levels in regards to their answer.

Answer 15

I've often seen myself as less than a spit in the universe. But God sees me different. That makes me more than a spit in the ocean but for the life of me I can't see that as I know of God and His Holiness. It just seems so much like I'm constantly saying "Why me"? How come I got all the fortunes? How could He love such a small thing as me? So much so that He has a place for me in His Kingdom and He has written my name in the book of life!?

So ... I know that comparatively I am small in Gods presence yet valued more than life by Him. But in my wife's presence I am worth more than a grain of sand and our love seems to encompass the milky way galaxy, or at least the solar system we're in. It's a very convoluted state of mind. Especially when I duck out the door to put the garbage out and come back in to a pair of odd dogs who are so damned happy I'm back they bark and wiggle and wag their tails like I've just returned from a long journey in the dangerous wild.

How does one get their heads wrapped around those two complete extremes? I'm a grain of sand in the grand scheme of things, but I'm valued in this universe by God, my wife and a pair of dogs that makes me feel that I am a grand piece of the universe.

If I didn't know better I would say that it's an oxymoron.

Answer 16

I believe the world revolves around ME until I get kicked in the butt then I wake up an realize that the world will continue to go on without me, then somehow I slip back into the world revolves around me, LOL.

Answer 17

i feel like im just another individual in the world...

but with a life worth as much value as everyone elses...