I used to be a scholar.
I used to be a brother.
I used to be a son.
I had a life once.
I had a purpose.
Did you ever do something on the premise that maybe; just maybe you could possibly make a difference?
Did you ever train for something or go to classes or get tutored in the hope that all you would be learning would someday change your future or make everyone’s future that much better?
Well I did all of those things. I spent years educating myself and exercising every order or discipline necessary for what I had thought would be my pre ordained destiny. Too bad I was wrong…Dead wrong.
To make things short for anyone who could possibly ever read this if anyone ever would, I will tell you that I have gone beyond the borders of all reality and human expansion in my quest out here alone amongst the stars. You see, I was part of a team of scientists basically catapulted into the depths of space; frozen in cryo-sleep.
The mission was simple. We were to be launched into deep space in the first worm-hole generating FTL ship ever conceived toward the Andromeda galaxy in hope to find other life or explore possible future planets to colonize. There were six of us in all; three male, three female and we all knew this was a one way trip. How could it not be? We were aiming to hit a mark 2.5 million light years away. We had spent the last two generations exploring the Milky Way without resolve. It was an unfortunate discovery to find that there was only one inhabitable planet within our entire galactic range. So we had to venture further.
When I woke I found that we had been traveling for just over 387 years at a rate 29 times the speed of light. The main cabin was hardly recognizable and covered in dust of some sort and I soon found out the true meaning of lonesome. All of the five other passengers aside from myself had not survived, and died in their chambers from aged wiring malfunctions. To make matters worse; the ship had jettisoned all five pods for economic purposes. I didn’t even get the chance to say my farewells to the departed.
It was five years, three months and two days ago now when I first came to life again, and you could not begin to realize the suffering I am dealing with. I am nowhere near an end in sight and have long since run out of activities to busy myself with. I don’t eat. I don’t sleep. I don’t dream or even move anymore. I am stuck here floating in the somber vestal void that is the universe; my universe, with only my reflection to keep me sane and in good company. A person I cannot even recognize. I don’t want to die like this; miserable and cold…but I am beginning to weigh my options. I see now that everything looks perfect from far away.
APOC, Mysticmama,
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snip:I see now that everything looks perfect from far away.
From a spiritual perspective – my thing – it is so true that everything would look perfect just as it is … if only we could look at our moment with detachment … if only from a bird’s eye view.
So, i can only imagine how cool and satisfying our circumstances would be if we were looking @ What Is from outer space – from Soul’s space.
That’d be one very cool way of putting things back in perspective
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Because I came straight to this story from the Hope story, I have somehow conjoined them and read this story as the teller being the virus living inside Hope…which would mean that there is always a glimmer of Hope for all…all that have Faith that there is Hope & not Faith that there is an almighty God necessarily.
Another excellent piece which has given me “food for thought” today, at this rate I shall have no room for lunch!
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