13.82 billion years. 13.82 billion years since the Big Bang. 13.82 billion years of creation. 13.82 billion years and the cosmos (and carbons) aligned themselves so we could have a Cristiano Ronaldo. 13.82 billion years later, a moth. [caption id=“attachment_2886230” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
Cristiano Ronaldo and the moth. Twitter @TweeterAlliss[/caption] Last night the two met under similar awing circumstances. Ronaldo, the god only second to mighty Olivier Giroud, saw his hopes of playing through the Euro 2016 final against France get crushed when he got injured following a tackle by Dimitri Payet. It was in that moment, sitting there on the field, that a weeping Ronaldo’s world collided with that of the moth. Now popularly dubbed as ‘Ronaldo’s moth’ (like he could ever own that BAMF), the Lepidoptera family member landed on the player’s face just as the tears stated rolling out of his perfect eyes. Now think about this, that moth tasted Ronaldo’s tears. How many people (or moths) can say that in the universe. But we were not the only ones who were stunned at the collision of the two destinies, Twitter lost its marbles at the sight of the ultra-slow motion replays of the event. Here is how the collision inspired millions across the world,
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