Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.

- Douglas Adams, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

Yes, I am quoting Douglas Adams again.  And I’ll keep doing it too.  He had a particularly obtuse view on life as a human on this planet and it is a view that we would all do well to keep in mind.

Despite the massive size of “space” we choose, in general, to set our own plane of existence related to the roughly common orbital plane of a modest number of planets and a large number of rocks around the star Sol, which we call “the sun”.  It is in the context of this orbital plane, and the revolution of our planet in it, that I have just completed another trip and have once again returned to the spot (relatively speaking, of course) whence I first began this journey.  Not only that, but it is the 40th such return.

One might consider that we are moving endlessly in circles within circles, rotations within orbits, but whilst the physical journey in 3 dimensions seems pointless, it is the journey in the 4th dimesion of time that brings new horizons.  It is really a nasty paradox bestowed upon us by either some god or evolution or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  To make the most of the time we have, we need to know what only time will tell.  The balance you make in your own personal version of that equation is what controls your quality of life.

Clearly one of my great learnings in my time is how to wax lyrical about matters philosophical.  But they say you only get out of life what you put in.  So, as I desire “more input” to inspire and challenge my mind, it seems only fair I should provide more output to inspire and challenge the minds of others and it is this I do on this blog.

It has also come to my attention, over the years, that not everyone thinks on the same plane and that, for some, these ramblings may be somewhat obtuse, obscure or just plain weird.  For those people I offer the more oft-quoted remarks befitting this occasion.  Simple?  Yes.  Succinct?  I guess.  Meaningful?  Not half!

Happy birthday to me,

Happy birthday to me…