Small Souls, Big Spaces

I was standing on the subway platform this morning, surrounded by a hundred people, yet everyone was looking down at their phones. We were all so close, shoulder to shoulder, but completely sealed off in our own little worlds. Then, a toddler near me pointed at the ceiling, gasping at a flickering lightbulb like it was a star. For a second, the whole platform seemed to pause. It made me realize how often we shrink ourselves to fit into the busy, narrow paths of our daily routines. We forget that we are tiny specks living on a massive, spinning rock. Sometimes, it takes being in a place that makes you feel small to actually feel alive. When we stop trying to be the center of everything and just witness the scale of the world around us, the weight of our own worries seems to lift. We are just observers, aren’t we? Just passing through, trying to catch a glimpse of something larger than ourselves.

Sergiy Kadulin has captured this exact feeling of quiet wonder in his image titled Sunset Photographers. It reminds me that we are all just looking for a way to connect with the vastness of the world. Does seeing a scene like this make you feel smaller, or does it make you feel more connected to everything?