Stars

Every time I go outside at night, I look at the stars. First I try to open the door quietly. It's difficult because the locking mechanism is very loud. Then I go out on the porch and sit on the edge of it. I often lose my balance when I look up at the sky at night. It's weird, so I absolutely need to sit. The stars are so big and small, bright and dim. Sometimes I see both moving objects and shooting stars. My mother told me that stars often fall in August. Is that true? I don't know.

I can even see the Milky Way now because we can't turn on the streetlights and other lights at night anymore. It's so unusual. The sky is darker than I thought it might be before. It's completely dark. I feel scared sometimes because of the sky. It's so big and we're so small. But there's really nothing there for us to be afraid of. I know that. Maybe someone lives on other planets, or explores space just like we do, but there's so much space that they may not know anything about us, just like we don't know about them.

Most objects in space are stars or uninhabitable planets. Entire galaxies remain empty. They may not have been empty once, or they will be filled by some living creatures in the future, but we have no hope that anyone exists at the same time as us. There is no hope that they are as smart as we are, and no hope that we are smart enough for them.

I'd like to be friends with someone from there someday. I wonder what they would have been like? I can't even imagine.

I remember one cartoon about a rabbit who traveled in space. He told a story about Great Red Spot on Jupiter, and it was presented as a horror story, and ever since then I think of that place as something sinister. But I know there's really nothing special about it. Theories say that Jupiter magnetized something like an asteroid or meteorite, and then it left a big crater there. I stick to that idea too, because Jupiter has a lot of gravitational pull and that happens a lot there.

Anyway, after that I wanted to be an astronaut, but I knew I would never be one.

02.05.2023 10:10

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