Ray D'Arcy

24 hours a day, all the stuff that goes with that and in a very stressful situation.

So what's the psychology of all that?

One of them did say you can tolerate nearly anything for 10 days.

It's only 10 days.

I suppose that's a good attitude to have.

I've been saying to people, and I've been lucky enough to interview astronauts, and they all say that looking back at Earth and seeing it as a sphere, a ball floating in space, that that has changed them.

a lot more than they thought it would.

And it is about what you're saying.

It is that, God, we're so minuscule.

We're told that and we know it sort of intellectually, but to actually experience that must be life changing.

Do you know what I mean?

It is a difficult one.

Firstly, that perspective thing, you know, it puts it in perspective.

You know, I've changed my attitude towards that.

I think it's a very selfish way of looking at the world.

You know, if somebody shares their story about, you know, a cancer diagnosis or losing a loved one and you go, oh yeah, that put it in perspective.

You know, and it sort of, anyway, that's another day's conversation.

But whatever's happening in your life at a particular time is the big thing.

It is big for you.

And it doesn't matter how big the universe is and how minuscule we are by comparison to everything else.