Rainbows: Images of the Universe

I've never heard anyone angry that they were seeing a rainbow.

Every color of light in the visible and invisible spectrums exist at once in a rainbow. Every light frequency, every wavelength that we perceive as light, is there.  It's sunlight shattered into bits by water droplets.

I was thinking about myself and what I'm doing right now, what I can hear, see, smell and feel at this exact minute.  I was also thinking that at the very instant that I'm experiencing all that I can, the whole universe exists all at once.  Every possible thing that can happen IS happening right now - somewhere.  Not only on our planet, but above it, in the universe, in all the universes.

If we could freeze this instant with the snap of our fingers, we'd see that every aspect of the human condition exists somewhere and is in play.  Every possible sound is being emitted.  Every single imaginable bit of matter that jiggles in the form of energy organized into shape or not even organized into any shape - exists.

I kind of like the idea that every bit of every thing or the nothing in between the things - not specific enough for you? - has always existed and always will.  We are breathing air molecules that could have been breathed by a monkey in New Guinea 20 years ago.  We eat food that grew in dirt that is made of plants and rocks that disintegrated hundreds of years ago.  Everything is trading bits and pieces of every other thing that ever existed or will exist on the planet for all time.

We are all big piles of minerals and a large sack of water that used to be somewhere else before - lots of other places many other times - but now we are using the stuff to be who we are at this point now.

If you are so proud to be unique and special, well you have a right to be.  You managed to organize the minerals that you have in a way that no one ever has before.  Then it will disperse and become many other things eventually.  Your exhaled breath will help become something else somewhere else, just like it always has.

A rainbow exists but it does not exist.  It is an explanation of light that is in no one place in particular, which is exactly what excites us to be the first to pin one to a spot and find the pot of gold underneath its end.  But, in truth the gold is in the exemplification of simultaneous existence of all things at all times.  And just when you get that, the rainbow disappears, as ethereal and intriguing as life itself.