No Space for Me

I have always yearned for wide open spaces. Craved to be away from buildings, neighbors, cars, and all the noise that comes with all of that. However, I have never wanted to travel in outer space. You can’t even get me on an airplane!

There is just too much that can go wrong. Maybe when I was a kid I may have thought it would be interesting to go to Mars but then my oldest brother had me watch Total Recall with him. That sceneim the movie where the air generator was turned off freaked me out. Seeing everyone there struggle to breath and slowly die made me realize that I never want to travel to space. I wouldn’t want to have to rely on machines to provide a proper atmosphere for me to live in. Machines break, not only that but what if someone decided that he/she no longer wanted to live and was going to take everyone out with them. All they had to do was break the generator.

It’s all too vast. There’s nothing there, just endless space. No thank you. I’d rather keep my feet on the ground and gaze up at the stars instead of visiting them.

I’ll explore space through movies and books.