Senator Mark Kelly

Yeah.

You know, and there's some things that require like an immediate, you know, response, like, you know, space shuttle's about to go out of control.

And there's others, you know, that you can, you can wait on, you can think about, you can reflect on.

Every decision should not require the same amount of contemplation and reflection.

Some do.

Some you can, let's think about this for a week.

Yeah.

You know, you're over a rack and the missile's coming at you.

You don't have much time to think about it.

You know, so, yeah, so I've, you know, I think about that a little bit in my new job here.

Yeah.

Well, I think, I mean, imagine if Marcus Aurelius knew that we were one galaxy in a universe of two trillion galaxies.

Right.

Probably wouldn't have changed his view on this, but he certainly realized that to some extent we're kind of insignificant in the big picture.

He's referencing the stars and how things are going to happen.

That are, whether it's over a thousand years or 40 years, things are going to happen that are, you know, just the way it is outside of our control.

Yeah.

And, you know, in there, I haven't read all of meditations, but I've read pieces of it.

You know, there are, then there are things that we can, you know, have an effect on.

Yeah.