The Sun

Often taken for granted, the sun is without a doubt the most essential part of life. Without the sun there is no gravity to hold us in place, no heat and warmth, no photosynthesis, no plants, and thus no food for anyone to eat. It has a diameter of 865 thousand miles (earth is about 8 thousand). It produces heat by constantly mashing up hydrogen and turning into helium, a feat we have only discovered in the last 60 years or so. It makes up almost 99.99 percent of the solar systems total mass, and has enough gravity to keep neptune floating in orbit... and neptune is only 2.7 billion miles away. These are the least of the sun's fantastic properties.

Everything is somehow better when its sunny. Take for example last Wednesday, sunny and about 65 or 70 degrees. That was the best day of your week - all because of the sun. There is no doubt that the sun affects not only your physical warmth but your psychological warmth as well. There is even a study out there showing that people conversing with others while holding a warm drink rate the other person as more friendly, hospitable, and generally "warm" than when holding a cold drink. Does the sun's warmth affect you? Absolutely.

I can already imagine being in shorts, generally sticky from sweat, eating ice cream, praying for a breeze, utilizing the park centrals pool e.t.c. I love the following things: Beaches/water, milkshakes, beer, barbecued stuff, baseball, hiking, laying around on grassy areas just to lay around on grassy areas, slurpees, not shoes, warmth, open windows - all of those things come around when the sun is out.

I love the sun. Every time you look at the sun, think about the sun, or are in the sun, remember how fantastic it is.