Eclipses, From Afar

E verything above us in the universe is so vast, so wide, so entirely massive, and we will never see it.

C ry as we may, it’s the truth—we as people will never be able to truly see the world, to understand its layers, its workings, the life beyond us—to know how complex it all really is.

L iving on Earth can be a real bummer. Don’t you want to see what else there is? Doesn’t it break you knowing you never will?

I t can drive you crazy, thinking about the universe for too long. Thinking about how small we are, how insignificant. Thinking of how we are a speck within a speck within a slightly larger speck.

P lease, I want to see it! I want to experience all there is to see and know out there. Even with how far we’ve come, we are so young and so underdeveloped. There has to be a way.

S ome day, there just has to be. What a tragedy it would be for our people to live in ignorance forever.

E clipses and shooting stars are all we can watch from afar, all the way down here. And I guess, for now, we have to be okay with that.