When I was a child, I wanted to study the universe, the stars, planets and everything about the distant skies above. I was that kid who found it bliss to spend an entire Saturday in my room, creating a planet project and finding the facts I could from the books available to me.
I think it was the awareness that things are further beyond my understanding of reality that drew me to loving astronomy. Far reaches of existence meant that what I went through was perhaps not as overwhelming as how it felt. Perhaps God comforted me in that way.
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