"Second star to the right..."
Ancient explorers hundreds of years ago navigated there sailing ships with the sun and the stars, with no real idea of what they were. We can pull out our laptop or cell phone and find out how far away a subway is or order pizza for. These ancient explorers took it upon themselves to explore things around them that were so foreign that they had no idea what it was for thousands of years, untill real science could explain it to them.
Imagine the first real sailing ships, that tried to travel across the oceans, and see what was out there. For all they knew, the Earth was flat. A few more miles and they might just fall off in to nothingness. Shesh... as if dealing with rats and crappy potatoes wasn't bad enough! Hundreds of years later, when astronauts from the United States stepped foot upon the moon, and proclaimed, were here! They paid tribute in a way no one could dream to those explorers that came before them, just by being out there, just by stepping foot on a place no man had gone before, to quote a well used quote. They were exploring the unknown of space!
Hundreds of years from now, I can only hope we will still be exploring the unknown of earth, the moon, and hopefully beyond. The future is filled with exploring and filled with so many wonderful things. It would be a shame to not learn them and experience everything life and this universe has to offer. The universe is so expansive, in the end the Human race may never live to explore it all. Someday perhaps... but now... in our small corner of the cosmos, we have but only one thing to explore and that's ourselves.
Our character. How we conduct ourselves around others, how we act, how we react to others, how we feel, how we live our lives, how we help others, how we affect others, how we love, how we care, how we explore... In the future, mankind will look back upon this and wonder, how we ever got anything done. In the early 1900's a group of men took it upon themselves to stand up for freedom and fight for the United States in World War I. 30 years later, another war, 500% as bad, started and another generation stood up and fought for what was right. It was called the "greatest generation" by some, IMO those were men and women of character. If we really want to explore ourselves, we have to look in to the past. That is where the future is. You wanna see what will happen tomorrow? Look at yesterday. That's exploring. Those are men and women I would like to be.
However exploring doesn't just end at looking at ourselves by what the past has taught us, or what the future might bring. It's about us. It's about you and me. I've taken it upon myself to explore something recently that is as new to me as the words French and Victory being used in the same sentence. I'm exploring something, new, and it's exciting. I feel so much like those astronauts that landed on the moon, or the ancient explorers sailing in to the unknown. I can only hope that what I find is wonderful, and everything turns out okay. I feel so alive and never before have I been so nervous about something, or had one thing on my mind like this. I feel... well tired... but pfft it's 3:30 in the morning.. I'm exploring the depth of night. And this myfriends is where I put this to an and... I'm gonna look back upon today.. tomorrow and learn about the future.
"Second star to the right and straight on till morning..."
Imagine the first real sailing ships, that tried to travel across the oceans, and see what was out there. For all they knew, the Earth was flat. A few more miles and they might just fall off in to nothingness. Shesh... as if dealing with rats and crappy potatoes wasn't bad enough! Hundreds of years later, when astronauts from the United States stepped foot upon the moon, and proclaimed, were here! They paid tribute in a way no one could dream to those explorers that came before them, just by being out there, just by stepping foot on a place no man had gone before, to quote a well used quote. They were exploring the unknown of space!
Hundreds of years from now, I can only hope we will still be exploring the unknown of earth, the moon, and hopefully beyond. The future is filled with exploring and filled with so many wonderful things. It would be a shame to not learn them and experience everything life and this universe has to offer. The universe is so expansive, in the end the Human race may never live to explore it all. Someday perhaps... but now... in our small corner of the cosmos, we have but only one thing to explore and that's ourselves.
Our character. How we conduct ourselves around others, how we act, how we react to others, how we feel, how we live our lives, how we help others, how we affect others, how we love, how we care, how we explore... In the future, mankind will look back upon this and wonder, how we ever got anything done. In the early 1900's a group of men took it upon themselves to stand up for freedom and fight for the United States in World War I. 30 years later, another war, 500% as bad, started and another generation stood up and fought for what was right. It was called the "greatest generation" by some, IMO those were men and women of character. If we really want to explore ourselves, we have to look in to the past. That is where the future is. You wanna see what will happen tomorrow? Look at yesterday. That's exploring. Those are men and women I would like to be.
However exploring doesn't just end at looking at ourselves by what the past has taught us, or what the future might bring. It's about us. It's about you and me. I've taken it upon myself to explore something recently that is as new to me as the words French and Victory being used in the same sentence. I'm exploring something, new, and it's exciting. I feel so much like those astronauts that landed on the moon, or the ancient explorers sailing in to the unknown. I can only hope that what I find is wonderful, and everything turns out okay. I feel so alive and never before have I been so nervous about something, or had one thing on my mind like this. I feel... well tired... but pfft it's 3:30 in the morning.. I'm exploring the depth of night. And this myfriends is where I put this to an and... I'm gonna look back upon today.. tomorrow and learn about the future.
"Second star to the right and straight on till morning..."
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