Drifting.
Silence.
I was weightless.
My racing heart was the loudest thing in a million-mile radius, thudding in my chest like a drum beat in the distance. I was scared it would disturb the peaceful stars, sleeping and glimmering many light years away. They twinkled like friendly eyes in the vast, incomprehensible void before me. The only thing separating me from them was the thin sliver of glass that encased my head, the too-big suit that cocooned my body.
An endless expanse of speckled darkness stretched out all around me, the light of the stars soft but bright as they illuminated my spacesuit and cast shadows on my pale face. In the distance, my home awaited my return, a magnificent sphere of swirling blue and green, dwarfed by the vastness of space. I wondered if the people living there were aware of their insignificance, their mortality. That nothing they do matters. And I hoped they would make the most of their short, meaningless lives.
To my left, the ship glints in the sun, an ugly, silver eyesore, a complex lump of worthless human technology, polluting the perfect darkness. My eyes return to Earth. Are we really going to do this? Strip a beautiful planet to its bare bones and then move on to exploiting the rest of the universe?
Somehow it felt wrong to be out here, experiencing the vastness firsthand. I wondered whether I should have just stayed down there, bumbling around on my tiny planet, going to work, going on holiday, playing with my kids. Evolution was never supposed to lead to this – a useless creature that came into existence by chance suddenly free of its small planet, free to explore and discover.
I looked out at the empty space once again, taking in the majestic emptiness of it, absorbing the moment – I had to; perhaps it would never happen again. Perhaps I was the last person to experience it.
Drifting.
Silence.
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Hi everyone, so I know I haven't posted on here in ages so here's something I just wrote quickly earlier on. Hope you all enjoy!
