Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong! You gave me dreams, now shattered, in my childhood. I can only imagine what it must have been like, watching the Eagle land on television. I hope a manned mission to Mars will happen in my youth, that could be the highlight of my generation.
Colonizing Mars.. ah something I place alongside the classic ideals of World Peace and World Government - will I live to see this? I hope I will, and I believe so as well. Today has been lost for me in my old dreamscape of reading articles on terraforming and imagining myself on desolate barrens or amidst thick acid-rain riddled clouds in a floating city.
Sometimes dreams cannot be. I'll never see myself as the ruler of Earth at the top of a spire, the tallest in the world, sleeping in a glass dome, watching the stars. Normalize! I need to normalize my thoughts, to a level not too high, but high enough to be considered as an achievement. So what if I won't have my spire. I can always have a telescope. I can always have a home out in the country. I can work hard and make some difference to this planet. And in all this, I can be modest and quiet, as was Neil Armstrong. Gain not pride in doing something better than others, gain pride in doing it as well as you can!
Colonizing Mars.. ah something I place alongside the classic ideals of World Peace and World Government - will I live to see this? I hope I will, and I believe so as well. Today has been lost for me in my old dreamscape of reading articles on terraforming and imagining myself on desolate barrens or amidst thick acid-rain riddled clouds in a floating city.
Sometimes dreams cannot be. I'll never see myself as the ruler of Earth at the top of a spire, the tallest in the world, sleeping in a glass dome, watching the stars. Normalize! I need to normalize my thoughts, to a level not too high, but high enough to be considered as an achievement. So what if I won't have my spire. I can always have a telescope. I can always have a home out in the country. I can work hard and make some difference to this planet. And in all this, I can be modest and quiet, as was Neil Armstrong. Gain not pride in doing something better than others, gain pride in doing it as well as you can!
Why do I speak of this? I am currently in front of a computer, procrastinating whatever work I've got on my hands. Why do I do this? Why am I still typing? I am doing so because in writing this for all to see, I wager a piece of my pride. I may procrastinate, but I shall not commit hypocrisy!
Imagine being someone as iconic as the first man on the moon. Wouldn't you want that? I would, and I pledge to work towards being an icon myself - an icon for what I stand for, if not for anything else!
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