When I want to feel a sheer sense of vertigo, I remind myself that "modern" humans have only had written language for ~1/10th of their existence*. And then, some (probably smallish) set of people invented it! Then: now! Ahh!
*as far as we know; depending on how exactly you count
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This is good! My vertigo generator is thinking about how there are orders of magnitude more stars in the galaxy than seconds you'll be alive and that many galaxies as well, each with as many stars.
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gee thanks now you’ve depressed me. Can’t even hitchhike the galaxy in my imagination now.
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Noooo! There are enough depressing things without me contributing.
Consider that you will *never* run out of new galaxy to hitch hike around
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Too late
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