The Meaning of Your Life

A letter to my newborn son

Photo by Jill Sauve on Unsplash

A life is infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things. When you zoom the lens out — when you consider the enormity of existence. A life is but a speck in the vastness of time and space. It is nothing. It matters not a jot.

But when you zoom the lens in past all of the galaxies, solar systems, stars, and planets, to a single point in time and space. To…