Think you're alone? Your face would disagree.
At this very moment, microscopic Demodex mites are living on your skin.
They hatch there.
They grow up there.
They find mates there.
And eventually, they die there.
Most people never notice them, yet these tiny creatures spend their entire existence navigating the landscape of a human face.
To them, your pores are cities.
Your eyelashes are forests.
The contours of your skin are mountains and valleys stretching beyond anything they could ever explore in a lifetime.
They have no concept of the outside world.
No oceans.
No continents.
No stars.
No universe beyond the surface they call home.
Everything they will ever know exists within a few square centimeters of your skin.
While we look up at the night sky and wonder what lies beyond our world, these microscopic residents are doing the same thing in their own way completely unaware that they're living on a creature unimaginably larger than themselves.
So the next time loneliness creeps in, remember:
An entire civilization of tiny passengers may already consider your face their whole universe.
And in their eyes, you're not alone at all.