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The Artemis II mission has undoubtedly been a major highlight for me in the past few days. Followed NASA and a bunch of Astronomy content pages to keep up.
I have been obsessed with the whole thing maybe a little too much ¿<hehe>. I feel bad for my friends and people I care to have any conversation with these days.
I'm always going, " hey did you hear about the people that went to the moon?", "omg yesss, they broke the record for farthest distance from the Earth", "Did you see the pictures they posted?" etc etc then I'd freakishly grapple for my phone to show them some of the photos I had saved like an annoying parent trying to show their co-worker a photo of their kid.
You are all welcome by the way.
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| my space pix collection, courtesy NASA. |
Star gazing is one of my favouritestestest things to do.
I love watching the night sky and willing myself to imagine that I can link the stars together to make out constellations or funny shapes and stuff. I love looking at the moon, how sometimes she is a sexy crescent and sometimes she just stuns full circle and sometimes it looks as if she is hiding behind a cloud to give our world a little peek.
I wonder what it must be like to be up there, just chilling in space, watching the deeds and misdeeds of the human race since the beginning of the world. I wonder if it feels lonely. Being so far away and yet so deeply involved in the evolution of humanity as it were. I don't think I envy the moon very much.
While I am deeply enamoured by the moon, the appeal of the Artemis II mission is more than just the cool space pictures.
It is watching decades-old dreams of different people around the globe become a reality. It is the hope that maybe all of humanity is not so bad after all.
It is a reminder that the possibilities are endless.
It is genuinely rooting for strangers in outer space with millions of other strangers from my tiny hostel room and the subtle but lingering feeling of unity in this global onlooking.
It is the state of perpetual wonder that I am left in seeing the beautiful world that Élèdá created and seeing an extension of His wisdom in how human beings were able to have this whole thing set up. Oh plus all the absolutely adorable subplots??? Caroll? The cute wake-up playlist for the team that has Chapell Roan on it? The Stateside remix? The selfies? The sitcom parody? The inspirational speech after the fly by? ugh my heart.
Again it is understandable that the whole thing is not as fascinating to a lot of people<a lie, it is nottt. How are you not in awe? What is wrong with you> and, I have been having a few people ask me why I am so obsessed about it and to be fair, it is not something I can give a straight answer to but here is the thing; the times are rough and uncertain and on most days, it is hard to see if there is any light at all at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
The news have been filled with gore. Our Nigerian leaders keep trying to out-do each other in their wickedness olympics, gender-based-violence reports are at all time high, innocent people are suffering and dying in their many numbers, <my personal issues pale in comparison but...> and I have quite a lot going on so EXCUSE ME if for once there is something giving me respite from a consistent state of displeasure and filling me with hope and moon joy.
Please don't shit on things someone else is excited about because you don't understand them or those same things do not excite you<yes yes, I am advising myself too>.
We are all trying our best, allow people to feel their joy. Well, except their source of joy is a potential risk to themselves or others e.g supporting a government that cannot care less about their people <you know the one, *wink>.
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I should stop yapping now. Thank you for reading my blogpost. If you are just like me, thoroughly in awe of the mission and you'd want to yap about it a bit, feel free to do so in the commentsss!
Uhm okay, thanks, bye!💕
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