"The truth is, I don't need to head out amongst the stars, I'm already there. On a ship called the Earth, being dragged around our galaxy by the sun's motion at around half a million miles per hour. I don't need to travel to a world in outer space; I'm already standing on one.
"And what madness it is to envy a star its billions of years when it cannot experience one moment of it. The stars would weep if they knew of our existence. The stars have no choices, they cannot love, cannot feel, cannot laugh, cannot think. By comparison, any human is a kind of a miracle, albeit one made inevitable, by simply being possible in a universe of 76 billion suns.
"We call ourselves humans. You can find us 4.3 lightyears from Proxima Centauri in the Orion arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. We are not all that we could be, but one day . . . well.
-Phil Hellenes, Reaching the Stars is Easy
This man is my hero. Listening to his videos has such a profound effect on me, and the way he phrases everything he talks about makes me feel so very at peace, and it brings me out of even my worst anxiety and depression episodes. I look at the stars differently now, and it settles me down when I need it most.