Do you look at the moon and stars each night?

What do you think about?

I do, most every night. Pick out a few easy constellations, watch swift moving clouds slide over the moon or just enjoy the wide open twinkling.

I think about people I love, wonder what they're doing. People I've lost. Wonder if any part of them persists. Think about myself, my choices. Also the usual ruminations on life, the universe and everything.

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zhafar · 61-69, M Best Comment

I wonder which points of light are simply that. The light of a star that died billions of years ago. How many civilizations have come and gone. If another species ever circumvented the bounds of time and space and reside under our noses. How many billions upon billions of galaxies, containing billion upon billions of stars, each, And how many possibilities.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@zhafar It's an enormous universe indeed my man.

zhafar · 61-69, M

I also ask the other questions. Those I have lost. My choices. So few now. The older we get, the more dead ones we know. A painful truth. Also though, I can see that great and even terrible events are not far from us. I have two grown daughters. I fear for them. I follow the sciences. It does not bode well.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@zhafar I hear you. Things are looking shaky.

zhafar · 61-69, M

I've been studying credible science journals since the mid 80's. We are in the midst of the 5th mass extinction right now. Hippy-dippy fools talk about "saving the Earth". The Earth will be here and rejuvenate. It is we who will be gone, along with the countless thousands of species that we take with us.