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Does a bird ever look into the night sky and imagine flying through the stars? Do crows and magpies look at the stars and wish to add their shiny things in the sky to their collections? Do lions and red pandas ever lie and sleep under the starts and winder how the sky changes from one giant light into millions of tiny ones? Does a cat ever watch a falling star and try to catch it? I wonder if any animals hold a curiosity for the night sky like any member of the human race does.

We hold such fascination with places and things that the majority of us will never be able to witness first hand. I wonder if it stems from us always wanting something that we can’t have. Or maybe it’s a collective sense of wonder and curiosity that grips us when we see something beautiful that we don’t understand. We see galaxies and planets all around us from our tiny corner of the universe and we wonder if we are alone.

But I wonder if anyone on this planets think the same. We cannot be alone. All of the universe and only us? Not likely.

I wonder if earth will see some travel in this lifetime. Cruise ships that take passages on scenic trips around Jupiters moons. Or flying back home to mars after a holiday to Io.

God it kills me that I am so small. Not even a dot on the map. I want to see it all. I want to see a start being born and dying in the same day. I am stuck on this planet until the day I die, my feet stuck in the mud like glue.

My planet is so beautiful, and the view of our galaxy is glorious, but I want more. I don’t want to just live and look up at the stars, I want to live amongst them.