5 Life Enlightenments got from Staying Near to a Cemetery

Philip Davy
4 min readSep 28, 2023
Photo Credits: Photo by Ron Szalata on Unsplash

I live near to a cemetery . Yes you heard it right !

Voyager 1 ( the space craft send by NASA on September 5,1977) is the most distant human made object in space. Voyager 1 is approximately 24,147,830,646 kilometers away from the Earth, the time I write this . It contains a gold disc which contains sounds and pictures of the Earth which are designed to give aliens a flavor of our planet earth, if ever they encounter it. Carl Sagen was one of the main brains behind the design of gold disc .

On February 14th 1990, Voyager 1 got a message from NASA to take a picture of earth from the position it is. Here is the picture below.

Pale Blue Dot of Earth (Image Courtesy: The Pale Blue Dot of Earth | The Planetary Society)

Seeing the tiny blue dot Carl Sagen made a quote which is very thought provoking and is always near to my heart. It goes like this.

“ That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and

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Philip Davy

Poet/Fiction/Non-Fiction/Tech Writer || Curious about unleashing the full potential of oneself ||