Today I touched a meteor that was over 4.5 billions years old. All morning Curtis and I struggled with Katie and her obnoxious behavior. It was bad enough that by 9 o'clock in the morning I was wondering if we would make it through the day. Everything comment she said to us was angry and nasty. Every interaction with her sister was a competition. Everything we wanted to do was stupid or boring or nothing she was interested. Everyone of her actions was impulsive. Everything was difficult. For us, everything was exhausting. (I know you are thinking, "Listen to Mom's black and white thinking... " but really, it was all rough. No gray today.)
When we got back home and I was looking through photographs of the day and I came across a shot of the ancient meteor. It got me thinking. As humans we are so unique. We are so self absorbed and concerned about our lives, but we are individually on this earth for such a very short period of time. The expectancy of our lives is about 75 years. One day is rather insignificant in the scheme of humans... but that won't stop me from trying to make her a better one.
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