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How to lay in a field at night and look at the stars by basteed

It took me

1 day

It made me

reflect.

"It made me feel very small, but no less important."

How I did it: Well, it wasn't in a field, it was on my driveway. But I could see the stars very well. I lay out on my driveway with my sister and friend, and we looked at the stars and picked out constellations. We shone a flashlight up into the sky, and you can see where the light of the flashlight ends. It makes you feel like you live in a giant bubble, like in The Truman Show, and that where the light ends is where the atmosphere ends and the rest of the universe begins. And there are so many stars you feel like you are just one tiny little being in a huge immense universe, and your troubles don't seem quite so big, because surely someone else in the huge universe has gone through the same things.

Lessons & tips: Do this on a night when it is warm and dry. If you lie in the dew, you will catch a chill, and it won't be as fun!

How to lay in a field at night and look at the stars by basteed

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