Being still

Have you ever thought about the fact that nothing is ever still?

Even when you're standing still you're still on the Earth which is orbiting the sun at about 29.7 kilometers per second.

And of course the sun travels around the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy moves through space.

And if you move in the other direction, even the cells which make up your body are moving, and the molecules which make those up have orbiting bits, and the sub-atomic particles comprising them are like jumbly, nervous packets of photons.

So, it is move, move, move always and everywhere. Nothing is still, or at rest.

It used to drive me crazy, like a claustrophobia sufferer caught in a coffin with no way out scratching and scratching at the lid...

Well, maybe not that crazy, but it was unsettling to think about. We live in a bumping and grinding, cause-and-effect, whirling dervish of a universe.

But then it occurred to me that there is one place which can possibly be still and that is the focal-point of the big bang.

That's a modest comfort.

Nothing is ever still.