This is such a wholesome thread thanks everyone for sharing 💜
Made me smile
Submitted 20 hours ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to historymemes@piefed.social
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LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
All the time, it’s such a beautiful idea.
And it’s not even just a static view in the sky, because we’ve been there. The same moon that all of history looked up at is also the same moon that we’ve sent people to walk on. The most distant summit we’ve ever conquered.
Taleya@aussie.zone 18 hours ago
Being southern hemisphere, i’ve never seen “the man in the moon”. But i see the rabbit and think of the Aztecs every time
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
That’s just lovely 😍
NightFantom@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
Meowth: We do have a lot in common. The same Earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe if we started looking at what’s the same instead of what’s different… well, who knows.
JohnnyMac@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Reminds me Carl Sagan and A Pale Blue Dot
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
Why Moon? Planet Earth is also the same and it looks like a much more logical thing to compare. And Sun is also the same.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Earth changed a lot in 2000 years, the moon not so much.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago The only thing that’s changed about the moon is a handful of robots, some chunks of various materials left behind, and footprints. None of which are visible to our eyes.
Anyone reading this can travel for quite some time and not be able to find something that’s remained undisturbed for several millennia.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
Yes, but the Sun is still a better example:)
Varesti@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Yes, why what she said and not what you said? Why anything at all?
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Yeah it makes me realize how short life is.
I think the same thing when I look at trees or hills or rocks or even older, human made masrony.
Those things have been there for many human life generations, and will be there for so many more.
Where I live, hiking is very popular, and it’s standard to “leave no trace”. Many people have been there before you, and many people will be there after. If you think you can leave your mark or that you’re an exception, likely, it’s only destruction of an otherwise nice thing. So people are encouraged to stay on the trail, not take shortcuts, etc.
I have a saying for myself that I’ve made recently, and it’s that “We are all just visitors here.” Sometimes it extends imagination and empathy to everything around us, even the inanimate objects like boulders. That random scraggly rock has seen many many people, most of the people pass by, some may build a relationship with the rock over their lives, but then they die and that relationship is entirely forgotten, the rock still a rock, maybe smaller, maybe more or less covered, maybe moved to a new location, but still there, watching us all pass by in our short stories, like a day’s sunlight through a window across a room.