Have you ever heard of VY Canis Majoris? It is something between 1800-2100 times the diameter of the Sun. If it's closer to the higher value it would take approximately 8 hours to go around it with the speed of light. In the Sun's current place it would surround Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. This hypermassive red overgiant makes me feel extremely small.
On the scale of the Universe we are not even a speck of sand - we are nothing. Our planet is worth calling the size of an atom at best in the grand space. What baffles me is that there is a possibility that even larger things than VY Canis Majoris exist, not to mention that we can't "see" everything, like the "dark matter component" of our Universe. Black holes are another thing residing in the space, it's believed that most galaxies have a hypermassive black hole residing in the center of them. There are so many things unknown to us in space, yet we try to understand them despite our worthless size compared to them.
I'm not going to claim to know anything but the Universe is supposed to be evergrowing, still at every given moment there would be an edge of the Universe existing. We are supposedly living within an endlessly expanding place.
When the Universe is as huge as it is, there is no way that other forms of life wouldn't exist somewhere in the deep space. We are ignorant and happy bunch, minding our own lives - for a normal person the Universe is too vast to care about in whole, for it can take millions of lifetimes even with the speed of light to reach some places, if not billions. No matter what questions we answer in the coming years, if any, I still enjoy life very much in my special way...
...but I do feel small as hell.
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