The Campfire (part 6).
"Well, how much time do you have?" asked the spaceman.
"Let's see, how about you tell me on the way to the dance" said the alien.
"Okay," said the spaceman.
Tired of waiting, the spaceman goes to the command cabin. With the tools he had just printed, the spaceman floats over to the pilot's console and begins to work in frustration. It had been several years since the mission began but now that he was about to finish, he couldn't wait for the set time to return home.
The reality was that when the mission began, the spaceman was excited to finally be a cosmonaut. Although he knew that he was going to have to spend several years alone in space, this did not bother him as he was focused on his mission. Now, no one could imagine that the infinite and immense emptiness of outer space would make the spaceman reconsider the need to work with someone.
“I had been so used to working alone that I really didn't need anyone.” -said the spaceman. And the reality is, he had never really been alone- "I always had others around me, but I didn't know how valuable it was to have someone to work with.”
"Oh, I understand what you're saying. Space gives you the opportunity to think about things that you might never have imagined, since usually on a planet there are so many things to do that you get distracted from things that you only think about when you are traveling in a tin can for a long time.” said the alien. “But I'm surprised you'd accept a solo mission in space, I can't imagine a human being alone for more than several months at a time. You guys need to be together with others of your kind right?"
"Yes, but what was I to know?" said the spaceman laughing. “But that was where it all started. At that moment it began to bother me to be alone up there. I felt the weight of the universe on my shoulders, and I needed a way out of that situation that was honestly going to drive me crazy. Let me tell you ”said the spaceman getting up from the trunk and taking his backpack.
He will continue...
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