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The universe: closer than you think.

People and scientist always do their best to explain the world around us using complex terms but if I recall something about my lessons was that everything can always be reduced and explained in its simplest form without the need of getting too complicated. Take the universe for example: Science has told us that the universe was born in a big explosion, but we have no actual 'proof' of that it is still a theory. Science has also theorized the existence and behavior of black holes but then again they are 'theory' only we still have yet to see the proof of their existence. Through science slowly grows and improves itself to prove each theory, I think we can get a lot of answers just looking around ourselves and I came with the following exercise: *Go outside your house or apartment or wherever you live, for this simple exercise we will picture a sandy beach with rolling waves on one side and grassy patches on the other. *Lean down and pick up a single grain of sand. *Hold

Thoughts.

I was raised to be Christian, well at least that is what my parents taught me, I went to a private school with Christian beliefs and teachings about the basics of Christian life and lessons from the bible. I must say that back then it did make sense, it gave me the basic foundations to be a 'good' person both in society and in general and like many other children my age we rarely questioned such teachings. But eventually as I moved to high school and college the view of the taught beliefs started to change and finally decided that I should be an atheist. If everything we are and can be is already pre-determined then what is the point in actually striving to reach it, it will be given anyway regardless of what we do, and we can use such beliefs to say "it was not my fault, it was meant to be this way" when I firmly believe everything we do on our own really defines the path we follow and pave for ourselves. But also one cannot think that we did it on our own either, a