A Profound & Universal Truth

Hi! It’s Laura - welcome back!

If I were a museum, I would want to hold this story close to my heart and claim if for my own.

I would be proud that I had given a twelve year old boy the gift of insight and whetted his appetite for the world’s infinite collection of profound & universal truths.

The Pink Palace - The Memphis Museum of Science & History

Memphis, TN - 2013

Do you remember the first time you realized that the world was bigger than just you? 
Maybe it was science class when a teacher talked about how many people are in your city or state. Maybe it was when you first learned that other planets exist. Maybe it was when you gave a kid at school some of your lunch because he or she was hungry. 

For me? It was the Pink Palace Planetarium. 

I was never the biggest science guy as a young kid. Not because I didn't like it or I didn’t think it was cool, but science from kindergarten to third grade is just a person telling you that things exist — and that’s about it. 

When I was 10 years old, my elementary school took us on a common field trip to the Memphis Museum of Science and History, as it always did every year or so. Most of the time, I found it cool but didn’t spend too long actually caring about what I was seeing. 

Until we got into that planetarium. 

It was the first and only time I've ever been in a planetarium. And at the end of the day, all it really is is a big room with a large screen on the ceiling and a projector drawing out star patterns and planets. 

It’s a slightly less expensive IMAX, if you will. 

But as a kid, my eyes lit up watching the planets whiz by me, and the stars constantly turn and turn around my mind as the MUSAY Moment began to take over. There was a curiosity that I left that planetarium with. That I was a lot smaller than I once thought. That the world was so much bigger than me and there was so much different stuff to learn and understand. 

Even now, as I write this, I talk and like to learn about random new things. A lot of those random bursts of interest all stem back to that moment that my eyes opened wide for the first time. 

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