Hey fellas, assalamu'alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Hereby I would like to take a try to make someone's life (well, myself) better according to some people.
Some thoughts after reading "Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth", "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry", and "Gintama"
Wait, maybe the first book and second book may relate closely to each other as they took place in outer space and have the same 'astro' word contained in their title. What about Gintama?
Just before telling those things, for the disclaimer, I am a not hard anime/manga fans. I selectively choose a little bit popular mangas such as One Piece (I wonder if the author unexpectedly stops his drawing in the middle, like: "I'm bored"), Detective Conan (Does this series still have finish line?), Detective Kindaichi (a new series released, Kindaichi on his 37 year old case solving, poor Hajime), and some webtoons I recommend Lunarbaboon, Saphie, S.I.D. Another disclaimer: I took Goodreads yearly book reading challenge and setting up to 10 books this year. For now, I have read 3 books: Statistics for Dummies, Saat Tuhan Berkata Tunggu, and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Seven more books, yeay!
Let's go back to Gintama. Gintama has an absurd yet comedic plot to be happily read on, however, some chapters are heavily dramatic and tear-jerking, and absurd-tear-jerking-crazy in a pack. Surprisingly, Gintama also has an outer space place setting as it begins its plot from the earth in the post-alien invasion. Thus, these three titles had similar connections, that may have or not have greatly reviewed in this full speed writing.
From "Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth", I learnt that a path to become someone capable of specific expertise (like being an astronaut, which I am not intrigued to become one) is not easy. Colonel Hadfield had it very long and strenuous. His failures and struggles were clearly expressed in the writing. Yet, the book made me realize that finding Earth in another point of view (literally) is beautiful. Beautiful not in terms of sight, but being grateful that being either at lowest point or achievement. Some terms "low" or "high" may dissolves as time goes by. Just enjoy them and pray that
everything is going to be okay. Enjoy means still trying our best to finish our task, I believe all side of emotions is mixed into that moment of that mission accomplishment.
The other book: "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil de Grasse Tyson, is also wonderful. I slipped into rate it to 5 instead of 4, yet until now I have not corrected it. For me, who is very awful in physics, astronomy, and every science related things, astrophysics is (another) rocket science for me. This book did not convince me well to change my major to galactical science or cosmology, but I may take interest in how astrophysics worked on people's perspective. The thing that is most enjoyable for me is the chemical elements forming and footprints from an astronomical object. I do not understand how combustion, explosion, or nuclear reaction worked on these elements creation issue but I still understand about how hydrogen and oxygen worked together to make water. I was also intrigued by the fact that maybe not all elements on Earth originally created on Earth, as well as ourselves are may not be created wholly from our memories and experiences, but also the people and components we are connected with.
The last story? Yes, Gintama. Gintama shows me that in its daily comedic conflicts, there are political issues, tragic past, and dramatic struggles (well, it is a shonen manga, what do you expect?). Nevertheless, my admiration came from how Sorachi-sensei delivered all the amazingness of Gintama. Breaking the fourth wall is just like usual thing in this manga. The universe is well built regarding the people's diverse races. Yes, even the aliens had some unexpectable stories (yes, Hedoro and Prince Baka). The main characters may be tiny little nodes, but they affected the way of the world of Gintama revolves.
Final remarks, those three books tell us about how vast is the universe: The real experience of viewing Earth and riding rockets back and forth (not very easily though); The extension of abstract thinking of brilliant minds towards unknown objects that are separated millions of unmeasurable distance; The fictitious universe of single mind that blows my mind occasionally about how can absurdity become a real issue and can destroy your entire life (yet it has to be rebuilt). A single mind can be a limitless expansion of universes, while a single universe is still expanding to every dimension. Challenges that we face are tiny little bits in this single universe and yet also could fill up our mind down to a bottomless pit. Yet even if that is still perspective matter, neither big-bigger-biggest nor small-smaller-smallest, our challenges need to be solved and they took all of our efforts. Not enough? Be sure to ask friends to help us while still building our capability to overcome the challenges, competently, physically, and mentally.
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*23 minutes overtime.
Thank you for reading. Have a nice day.
Wassalamu'alaykum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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