It is a trip.
Weird to think that sooooo much happened before you were ever even thought of.
While you're looking up at that dim star, realize that the light you're seeing might have left that star while Hannibal was driving his elephants toward Rome, while Alexander was partying after his most recent conquest, while the ancients were building the pyramids in Giza, etc....
In other words you're seeing back in time to what that star looked like thousands of years ago, and for all that time since, that light has been making its way here.....while all the things that have happened in history in between were going on....
That star may not even exist anymore.....it may have blown apart, or collapsed on itself while Charlemagne was alive, or as the founding fathers were signing the Declaration of Independece....