Gravity can't stop us

From the window of my plane the ground was barely visible. The captain came on the loudspeaker and informed us that we had reached our cruising altitude of somewhere just over 30,000 feet. Humans aren’t supposed to be up in the air like that, gravity should prevent it. In Stephen Hawkins’ Grand Design, he speaks at length about the gravity in our universe and how gravitational pulls are responsible for much of the creation of the universe. They hold planets in orbit, draw particles together that form new elements, even cause stars to collapse in on themselves causing black holes. While reading all of this it occurred to me that humans have beat nature. Earth’s gravity naturally pulls us towards the Earth or more specifically towards the ground. At some point humans decided that this was unacceptable and they stood up. Defying gravity we now stood upright, learning to use our muscles to balance out nature trying to pull us back to the ground. Then we took it one step further, for whatever reason a human decided to jump, leaving the earth, going in the opposite direction of gravity. Now we have done the ultimate fuck you to gravity and found a way to soar through the sky. We are not built to fly, we don’t have wings, yet we do it anyway. We’ve become so cocky we actually fly out of the earth’s atmosphere, completely negating nature’s plan for us to remain on earth. For billions of years nature has been using gravity to create this amazingly complex universe and in just a short time we as humans have decided that those laws of gravity don’t apply to us, now that is some extreme arrogance.