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How tiny and insignificant are we as individuals. A single person is a weak, frail being, with an existence unfathomably short in the cosmic view. Our ability to change the world around us is minuscule, even the greatest works of man will not out live the least of God's works. At first a sense of hopelessness can overwhelm anyone even beginning to grasp how tiny of a spec a human life is, but there is hope. Man has something that is beyond scientific explanation: a soul. What you do with it is what matters, because that is what is beyond the mere dust and shadows of this world.