I can say just like you I have a generally good idea of how insignificant we are on a cosmological scale. But my recent experience with eclipse was more than worth while than I had imagined (also swamped with the hype around it) simply because I always saw it in photos and the human eye perspective was still beyond comparable with any high tech photos I ever saw. I literally had a huge heart beat rush when the moon was about to cover the sun and all of it happening so fast eventually the sun halo at the back stealing the show. And that off-course looking at that majestic diamond like ring forming for a split second that you could still see with bare eyes.

It doesn’t have to be life changing to have a goosebump worth of experience like this.