That's not a very optimistic title. I was wondering what to write about when I looked out my window and thought that nature could teach me something like it always has, and after that, I thought of the Sun. I've learned from the clouds, the water, the plants, and today, I asked the Sun for some wisdom, and with the help of someone I was talking to at the time, we got to this, I said that the Sun rises and the Sun goes down, and they responded, "but it actually doesn't." And that's where this topic came from, the Sun never rises (or falls, for that matter).
The Earth spins, and (this is inaccurate depending on the time of the year and where you're located), for 12 hours the Sun is in the sky, and for 12 hours the Sun isn't in the sky. We call the moment the Sun comes into the sky a "sunrise" and the moment it begins to dip under the horizon, a "sunset." These are notable events, beautiful, and powerful events, and they change things, in a sunrise, the world and life is lit up and comes to life, in a sunset all things slowly rest and come to fall into a state of calm. These are big things but it's all simply what we see. The Sun doesn't go up and come down when it wants to; otherwise, I would blame Mr. Sun for daylight savings every year, but I don't do that.
From this, we learn perspective. We see how big an event can be, even from one position, however, if we were stationary in space staring at the Sun, we wouldn't see the Sun going up or down—especially since you'd also go blind quite quickly—the sun would be stationary. An uninteresting event compared to the beauty of the sunrises and sets. While we may think something is huge, while we may perceive an event as grandiose, it may simply be nothing.
When you fail in life and it seems huge, think about the Sun, when you succeed in life and it seems huge, think about the Sun. There is no up, there is no down, there is simply perspective, and the Sun teaches us this, live your life, in the present, whether the Sun is up, down, or obscured, be here, right now.
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