Mind Boggling

I like that phrase. 'Mind Boggling'. I've been saying that about quite a lot of things recently.

I think it started with the documentary about aliens and all the historical proof that people have to say that they do exist (Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, you should check it out if you can). That was mind boggling. Apparently, according to that documentary, there is proof that Akhenaten (or Amenhotep IV) could have in fact been an alien. That's quite cool, but it also said that every single God from every civilization, especially ancient civilizations, could have also all been aliens. It was really mind boggling though, all the proof they had, just wow.

And then there was the program we watched in Geography. It was about the Earth's atmosphere. It was telling us all about the things that the atmosphere could do. It showed us some features created by the wind, it showed us the different layers of the atmosphere and it showed us all of the different things that take place in the atmosphere. It said that we are essentially living at the bottom of a giant ocean, like lobsters, and that the weight of the atmosphere pushing down against us is equal to the weight of about a bus (I think), but we don't get squished because the air (or the water) inside us equalises the pressure, just like lobsters! I thought that was somewhat mind boggling as well. I never would have known any of the things in that program in a hundred years if I hadn't watched it. I just thought, 'Wow', when we were watching it.

Last night was the clincher, however. That was the mind bogglingness to end all mind bogglingness. My mum wanted to show me a realy bright star, so I went outside. The moon looked really eerie, there were clouds around it, and the light was only shining through little breaks in the clouds, but you couldn't actually see the moon itself, only the light. It was the kind of sky you would expect to see in some kind of horror film, it was just really creepy. I sat down then and tried to see the really bright star my mum told me about. She sat down on the other seat and tried to point it out, but it went behind the clouds, I couldn't see it. She then saw a sattelite, I missed it, but she went in a short time after. I stayed outside and just sat looking up at the stars. It got me thinking; 'was there anybody sitting, doing the same as me somewhere else in the world?' And then I thought; 'Was there somebody sitting on that really bright star above my head, sitting, looking up at the stars, looking up at the earth, and thinking, 'Is there someone sitting looking up at me?'?'. All of those stars, surely there is someone else out there. I just felt so small and insignificant. I was tiny in the grand scheme of things, and I thought:

"Mind boggling..."