Existence

I had a great long weekend. I golf on Friday and today. Went on a short hike on Saturday and had some good time to relax to myself afterwards. On Sunday, we slept in and went to the beach then had friends over for dinner. It was a full weekend and exactly what I needed before my month of work starts to pickup quite a bit.

After my round today, I had some time to myself to go to a park and finish Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. It was a fascinating book on modern physics and Rovelli has a great way to explain complicated topics to the layman.

I will never be smart enough to fully understand loop quantum gravity and other deep theoretical physics concepts, but it is incredibly interesting to read about the concepts from a high level. Rovelli delivers in that regard. It’s a fascinating book and one that got me thinking a lot about the world and my existence.

As humans, we are such a tiny part of the known universe. We do not understand much about existence besides what our brains depict. It’s a humbling thought but at the same time soothing. Humans may not be as important as we perceive ourselves to be. The sheer thought of that makes me realize just how irrelevant a lot of my worry about life and the world is.

We are all alive and we will all die one day. We might as well enjoy our short time on our planet.