ZOOMING OUT

As I get older, my perspective on myself and world I live in grows more distant; as if I were to be zooming out on Google Earth from a tiny portion of my bed to a vantage point high above the house, above the city, above the state, country, the planet itself; all life. I am ever-growing minuscule, travelling swiftly but not at all, preparing to disappear into the dust of the universe from whence I came, content that I have enjoyed my momentary subjective size and importance, that the earth has contained me, and I have contained the earth. Goodbye earth. Welcome infinity.