Happy Friday!
Let’s get existenital for a sec.
According to a NASA theoretical study, 92% of Earth-like planets in our universe haven't even been born yet.
There’s a buttload of more time ahead of our universe. How much time exactly? The last star in our universe will burn out in 100 trillion years, NASA said.
100 TRILLION YEARS.
The universe is only 13.7 billion years old! If the universe were Coachella, we haven’t even entered the venue yet! We’re still in the parking lot shotgunning a can of White Claw, hearing an opening act blare in the distance.
There is an advantage to being so early, though. We can use powerful telescopes like Hubble to observe our cosmic origins. Future civilizations won’t be so lucky.
“The observational evidence for the big bang and cosmic evolution, encoded in light and other electromagnetic radiation, will be all but erased away 1 trillion years from now due to the runaway expansion of space,” Hubble’s news release about the study said. “Any far-future civilizations that might arise will be largely clueless as to how or if the universe began and evolved.”
Sucks to be them!
This whole Earth-is-early and the-future-is-going-to-be-poppin’ got me thinking: What if your most amazing friendships haven’t happened yet either? What if, like our universe, you’ve been laying the foundation for these friendships to take hold?
People associate friendship with youth, like they’re something you can only enjoy when you’re at a certain time of your life. That’s just not true. All of this –– learning, loving, losing –– is preparing you for a better future with your wonderfully fantastic friends. There’s happiness ahead, I promise.
You buddy,
Anna