Ironically there is just one answer.

It doesn't matter.

The distant star is as near as it is far and the imagination can fit the world in a thimble. and that's where it all comes from. The imagination.

Stand outside sometime and look at the stars (don't know if you can see them in your city I can) How can anything be that important? ultimately it doesn't matter because in the scheme of things everything just is.

Or in the words of Stuart Wilde... I am what I am and what I am is beautiful.

Alex