Here's another perspective .... this is our local galactic group. Our nearest galactic neighbor is the Andromeda Galaxy ... it's located about 2 million light years from us. Again, if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 2 million years to get there.

Another way of thinking of it is that the light we see from Andromeda today started it's journey when our first prehistoric human ancestors first evolved in Africa 2 million years ago.

So the light we see from Andromeda today started it's journey when our ancient African ancestors looked like Homo Hablis - estimated to have been around in Africa 2.4 million years ago and looked like this