mediocrity oddly puts us in our simple place

at a time when man’s ego was such that he was the center of all
nicolaus proved that he was not
by going against all that came before
to create a new normal

this is bravery of a rare kind
and
a reminder for us all to do the same

consider
the vastness of the universe
and your place in it

blind adherence
to tradition
to ritual
to peers
to leaders
to family
to society

leads to hubris not humility
leads to excess not moderation
leads to magnification of self not the magnificence of infinity
leads to asymmetry not symmetry

so
always remember what and who you are
you are no one and no thing
nothing

except what you are in relation to everything else
and

you pale in relation to the god’s eye that is the galaxy