As a kid, I would go outside and look up at the stars at night, right about 10 minutes before I had to go to bed. Growing up, science was and still is my favorite subject because it covered everything that made up the universe. I came to appreciate astrology early on.
Friday night as I was sitting atop the parking garage with my friends for old time sake, we looked upon the stars and the moon. Being in the city and atop the extremely lit up garage, we could see the moon and two stars under it. We wondered what if those stars were really planets. Then it got me thinking of the nights I spent during high school.
When I was a freshman I made plenty of friends and friends fast. One of the parties I went to was a birthday party with maybe 15 or less people there. There was a field and her house was out in the boonies so there wasn’t any street lights. The only thing that emitted light were the lights in the house and the fire they built earlier. We laid in the field, stared into the night sky and observed the night sky. There were stars everywhere, and you could see everything. The number of stars was uncountable, their beauty breath-taking. I remember thinking there is so much stuff out there we don’t know and will never know. We can send satellites and telescope into space, but there’s just so much out there.
Over the breaks when I went home I would go over to see my friend Shayne and we would often go to ride bikes at night no matter how dark or creepy it was. We would go out to the highway and look at the stars. I will tell you it got better each time, clearer and clearer. Man, it was stunning. I could go on and on about the times I’ve spent gazing upon the stars and those memorable and countless nights and the conversations I had with my friends and sister, but the main point about stars isn't the clarity and conversations that accompany them.
For every time I gaze at the stars, I realize that I am looking at a huge picture book and the world’s biggest archive that has been logging information about our universe since the beginning of time. It is like the universe’s own library that plays its own movie every second of everyday, but we only experience it every 12-15 hours. We are just a particle, in a sense, in a massive universe with us only being bound by time.
God made everything that we know despite what you believe; you can understand that the actual concept of time is man-made and we are bound to it. I understand and am just amazed that when I look into the sky and see Mars and Saturn and the light that has reflected off of it, And we are just now seeing that, for it took years upon years to get here because it’s millions upon millions of miles away. We look into the past with every gaze into the sky. This leads me to appreciate the time I have on this planet. I understand I’m only a second in time compared to what is beyond our atmosphere. What you do your time is valuable and a piece of history. How will you make yours valuable? Time is ticking.
