Hitting The Mark
Illustration★★★★The universe is absolutely huge. Even in our local neighbourhood – the Milky Way – distances are awesome. For instance, the nearest that Mars ever gets to Earth is 56 million km. So when they want to send a rocket to Mars, they have to calculate everything right down to the smallest fractions. If they send it in a direction only half a degree out, they’ll miss Mars altogether. And a miss is a miss whether they miss by 1,000 km or a million km. Life is a little bit like that. A few little changes here and there, a few detours along the way can make the difference between hitting the mark and missing the mark. 146
The point
A rocket to Mars requires precise calculation; even a half-degree error means missing the target entirely. Life is similar—small detours and compromises accumulate, determining whether we hit or miss our eternal mark.