I for Important.

People often think they're very important. And ads like to tell us that a lot - "For number one...for the most important person in the world..." etc etc etc. And also, for quite a while, people have often tried to give other people a big dose of perspective by using the massiveness of the universe. If you've read Douglas Adams, you'll be familiar with that. In fact, you'll probably be familiar with that argument anyway, because it's gotten around enough.

Thing is, this is where it's very easy to get words confused. Perspective shows that comparatively, we're extremely small, yes. But not necessarily that we're very unimportant, though that would seem reasonably logical (since we often correlate size with importance, which is wrong, but :P). Because we are important.

Though that is a very difficult case to argue if you don't believe in God. I suppose you could try and argue that we're the highest evolved beings in the universe or something like that, but that's the sort of thing that could be disproved at any moment. (Don't know if it ever will be, but it's one of those contant things rather than an absolute.) But with God, at least, you can know that you're important to him, and more important than all the other stuff out there.

So small, yet so important. Cool, yet scary.

How about J for Joy tomorrow? Sounds like a plan.