The universe is not perfect. It's a violent place out there. Unimaginable terrors lurk in inexplicable corners. And this piece of rock is just a safe haven for only a little while. Until the yellow sun becomes a red giant. Scorching the surface or maybe even this whole terrain. Or swallow the whole rock. Are we to survive to witness such an astronomical event?
Asteroids have impacted Earth. Comets are flying by. Some too close for comfort. Get a little bit closer and it could mean a mass extinction.
And us? We are just sitting on a little bit of cosmic waste. This is just a third rock from a star in the outer edge of a small galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies out there with trillions of stars. Yet it is still mostly an empty universe. Are we alone? Is everything else just waste?
This is our home. Born of chaos in the cosmos. Our time here hasn't been that long. Yet we have manage to bring drastic changes to every aspect of life here. We are the late arrivers and yet we have claimed this earth ours. We have scarred this terrain in many ways. We share this haven with a billion more other species. We depend on them. And yet we have disrupted this very delicate system. Faster than anyone or anything could adapt. We are pushing as far as we could. Until all odds turn against us. Why do we wait till the last second to act? Our nature? If it is, can't we change it? After all it is 'our' nature.
I stand here and look at the state of the world. All the little good left lost in all the haze and confusion. Life becoming faster and faster. A few ever stop to wonder. And most would go on thinking there is nothing they can do. Doing nothing rarely solves anything. Do they not see a problem to solve? Do they not see a world worthy to save?
After all there is no place like home.
Asteroids have impacted Earth. Comets are flying by. Some too close for comfort. Get a little bit closer and it could mean a mass extinction.
And us? We are just sitting on a little bit of cosmic waste. This is just a third rock from a star in the outer edge of a small galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies out there with trillions of stars. Yet it is still mostly an empty universe. Are we alone? Is everything else just waste?
This is our home. Born of chaos in the cosmos. Our time here hasn't been that long. Yet we have manage to bring drastic changes to every aspect of life here. We are the late arrivers and yet we have claimed this earth ours. We have scarred this terrain in many ways. We share this haven with a billion more other species. We depend on them. And yet we have disrupted this very delicate system. Faster than anyone or anything could adapt. We are pushing as far as we could. Until all odds turn against us. Why do we wait till the last second to act? Our nature? If it is, can't we change it? After all it is 'our' nature.
I stand here and look at the state of the world. All the little good left lost in all the haze and confusion. Life becoming faster and faster. A few ever stop to wonder. And most would go on thinking there is nothing they can do. Doing nothing rarely solves anything. Do they not see a problem to solve? Do they not see a world worthy to save?
After all there is no place like home.
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