From: What Is a Shooting Star?
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If a shooting star falls and no one sees it, did it happen?

About 48 tons of space dust hits Earth daily. Most over oceans. Most during daylight. Most too faint. The universe doesn't need an audience. The meteor's light travels whether an eye receives it or not. Its atoms join the biosphere regardless. This is a useful perspective. Your actions have effects beyond your witness. The kindness you showed and forgot? It rippled. The work you did that no one praised? It held something together. The shooting star doesn't perform. It simply is. So are you.

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Do one small good thing today that no one will notice. Let it be your unseen meteor.

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