” If you haven’t answered your e-mails and your voicemails and your text messages and chat messages, then you’re likely buried under a sea of physical mail — fliers, coupons, bills and, like a spotted zebra, the occasional personal letter. The wave of demands on your time is constantly crashing against your capacity to take it all in. But let’s, for the purposes of this post, stop and focus on today.

Just today.”

Created by freelance graphic designer Luke Twyman, this interactive graphic places this day within the context of a month, a year, and ultimately- the expandable time span of the entire universe. It shows each period of time relative to today, until today (or you, in actuality) is diminished into a mere sliver of nothing much, really.

A smart, succinct way of putting things in perspective for the often-muddled, microscopic day-to-day, this simple, quick, and easy-to-use interactive feature will at once inspire and reduce, expand and diminish- albeit temporarily..

Go here to experience it, and read the interview with the designer here.