Effects of "out there"

The more one studies and observes the solar system, from the vantage point of other planets and probes filming them, the more one is painfully aware that time, location, and space is all relative. Speeds on Earth, for example, are negligible on other celestial bodies.  Gravity is different on those planets, so travel with vehicles is also different.  When people have been on the moon, they usually walk to different places.  They did have a wheeled vehicle available, but it had limited use since fuel and traction were problems.  The same has been true for the wheeled vehicles on Mars.  Atmospheric conditions and chemical make-up also alter the way movement happens on a planet.

So, as we humans go about our daily activities all bound up with schedules and apps that tell us time estimates on freeways to get places, events that are coming up, sleep times, heart rates, calories burned, and amount of water consumed on our wrists, we should know that our routines and outlooks are relative to our position in an orbit around the sun.

  

If we lived on Mars, Europa, or Titan, or if we lived outside of this solar system, what would our perspectives be?  I have to believe they would be much different.  They would be relative to our location in the time and space of that planet.  The films Interstellar and the Martian have helped us see a different perspective since they had characters that lived outside of the Earth's location in time and space.  They helped us see the relativity, the fragility, and the minor importance of existence here on Earth.

I consider that from time to time.  Whenever I do, my mind usually releases the stresses that have built up.  I treat people better.  I feel less ambitious and more apt to act out of a sense of what the long-term benefits are rather than the shorter ones.  And I cherish my memories more because it could have been extremely different if I had been born in another time and in another place "out there."