“Sometimes you look up and there just seems to be so many more stars that ever before. More. They burn brighter and they shine longer and they never vanish into your periphery when you turn your head. It's as if they come out for us and to remind us that their light took so long to come to us, that if we never had the patience to wait, we never would have seen them here, tonight, like this.
That as much as it hurts, sometimes it's all you can do, wait, endure and keep shining, knowing that eventually, your light will reach where it is supposed to reach and shine for who it is supposed to shine for.
It is never easy, but it is always worth it.”
-Tyler Knott Gregson
I realise that I was so fixated on writing out the terrible scare that happened in the library that I forgot to tell you about the beautiful exhibit I saw that same day.
"Outliers" by Jeremy Sherma is part of the Mind the Gap exhibition in the Library. AT first glace it seems like 4 identical white blocks lying on the floor, but reading the description and looking more closely, you discover that each long block has undulating ridges and waves on them, in different patterns so that each one is unique. The blocks are made of polystyrene and carved using astronomical data with 3D printing technology.
As I looked at them I was amazed at how God guided light through millions of years to reach us at this moment. To imagine that the light I see from a star was actually produced years and years ago makes me feel so small and yet so much a part of this beautiful world.
I suppose it is sort of like our own special form of time travel - to travel billions of years into the past all we need to do is look up into a night sky.
(Thank you Natascha for the beautiful quote)
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