I've heard these kind of feelings many times and I find them particularly interesting because I've never felt anything like that I think the feeling of being "

I've heard these kind of feelings many times and I find them particularly interesting because I've never felt anything like that I think the feeling of being "minuscule" starts at a much lower scale. Who am I in this city? No one relevant. 40-50 people might feel sad if I die today. The remaining X million won't care. Does that make me feel bad or irrelevant? Not really...I'm relevant to 40-50 people and very relevant to my close family and friends. I'm not too attached to the human species either. I think we have some great things, but even in terms of the earth we've only existed for a tiny bit (and maybe we won't be for much longer....100 thousand more years?). I'm also fine with that. My hypothesis is that many people feel very strongly things like the soul is eternal or that humans have a unique and uber-important destiny in the universe. If you feel that, contemplating how minuscule we are when considering time-space will make you feel weird because it contradicts those very strong feelings.