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0Good morning everyone. I have a very big dream, and a very small hobby.
My dream is to become an astronomer. I want to study the biggest things in existence: giant stars, black holes, and galaxies.
But my hobby is painting the smallest details: the veins of a leaf, the dust in the sunlight, or the wings of an insect.
Some people ask me: "Why do you look at the ground when you want to look at the sky?"
I tell them: "Because you cannot love the infinite, if you ignore the tiny."
Last month, I was painting a landscape in a park in Guangzhou. I was frustrated. I was trying to paint the whole forest, but it looked flat. I couldn't get the perspective right.
Then, I put down my brush. I saw a tiny ant carrying a crumb of food over a stone. I watched it for ten minutes. I saw how it struggled against gravity. I saw how it followed a path.
Suddenly, I realized something amazing. The gravity that pulls on that tiny ant is the same gravity that holds the solar system together. The laws of physics are the same for the insect and the star.
By watching that small creature, I learned patience. I went back to my painting, and I focused on the details—the grass, the bugs, the shadows. The painting came alive.
We often look for greatness in power and size. But the secret of the universe is hidden in the atoms. To be a great scientist, and a good human, we must remember: To touch the stars, we must first care for the earth.
So let us treat nature as our companion and each other as family. Because on this spaceship Earth, we are all we have. Thank you.
