Random thoughts

A few nights ago, while I was walking across the meadows, I noticed the sky was clear enough to see the stars. I can't remember the last time I'd seen them. Only a few stripes of wispy ice cloud hung in the sky. Staring up at it, I felt like gravity had lessened, and that if I focused my mind enough I could fly up and into that sky. I love it when you look up and you realise that a full half of the outside world is above the horizon; it's like suddenly noticing an old friend.

Every time I see the stars I think of the incomprehensible vastness of the universe. Cubic lightyears of it, and most of it is empty. Still, could there be other intelligences out there? It would be conceited to imagine ourselves to be the only ones, I think.

I thought then of aliens on other planets looking up at their skies, and wondering about us. Different skies, different minds, but the same question. What would their worlds be like? I want to write about them or draw them. If only I had some real ideas... or time... or talent.   8^)

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