What's your biggest nightmare?

sweat the small stuff

I’ve had a recurring nightmare my entire life. Well, as far as i can remember anyway. In this nightmare / fever dream, I’m faced with a task. I must move an entire beach, one grain of sand at a time, using only chopsticks. Let that sink into your body for a minute.

Chopsticks.

It gets worse

In the dream, I’m tiny. I’ve somehow shrunk. Like I’ve been zapped by a nasty shrink ray. I’ve been made so small that each grain of sand is the size of a baseball. It’s completely overwhelming.

It’s also a fairly realistic dream

If you contemplate the size of our solar system, our galaxy or our universe, you’ll find that we are infinitesimally small. Our size on a galactic scale makes dust look like boulders – like the glacial erratics dropped liberally around this part of the world. When you think about the scale of time in the universe, our lives are over quicker than the blink of an eye.

Funny part?

Despite the fact that each and every one of us is completely insignificant we take life so seriously. …