As time ticks down until the James Webb telescope is operational and will see into the farthest reaches of the universe (further than we’ve ever looked, anyway), it’s about time we acknowledge the mystery of creation. It’s a remarkable feat we’re pulling off to find something we still stand in reverent awe towards. It brings us back to the big questions of life:

Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
How does all of this work?

Among those life-provoking existential ones, we also stand in awe of such other questions as:

Why did you do that?
Does anybody understand this?
What is going on?

To those questions, we sometimes don’t actually want to know the answer. However, we only have to look beyond ourselves for just a moment to rid ourselves of any posturing about our sense of self-importance. Just one glance at the mystery around us will tell us we have no clue—none—what great wonders we still have to discover.

And once we do that, how can life ever be boring again?