Us in perspective

I received an interesting main as a forward from a friend. The topic was "Great Perspective on the size of the Universe". Though I generally ignore these mails and process them when I have some free time, I was intrigued by the title. On opening it, I was properly put into my place.

Seems that we are the size of a grain of sand when compared to the Sun, which would on the same scale be larger than football.

What really put me in place was that, the Sun itself would be the size of grain of sand when compared with the star Antares which would be the size of a large exercise ball, when using the same scale as comparing earth to Sun. I know that the universe is large, but WOW, I could not
imagine the spread and size of it as described in that mail.

This set me wondering, what the hell, we are so insignificant when seen with respect to the whole universe that we would be like a mustard seed in a warehouse full of footballs, exercise balls, and other such massive objects. Then why are we talking about conquering other nations and people. We have enough weapons to destroy our planet many times over, many many times over. Would it matter in the whole scheme if we existed or not? I believe not.

If we are not able to understand this, we are not fit to exist.

This whole thing was also reinforced through an excellent book - Contact, by Eric Segal. Though the movie does not do justice to the book, it is a good watch. The book deals with the subject of our place in the whole universe. And the same idea is presented by the author.

Then why are we fighting within ourself, killing/maiming our kin, destroying our environment, polluting the very air, earth, and water that sustain us. Why are we running behind money - an invention of ours-? Why why why?

This raises another question in my mind. Is this universe accidental? Or is it evolved? Or is it created? Who will answer this question?