It's 3am and dark, so dark. I look out through the skylight
hatch to the night sky above and it takes me back to my childhood. My dreams
and aspirations as a seven-year-old. To be an astronaut, an astronomer, a star
traveller. Through that rectangular patch of bright night sky in the pitch
black of the van interior, the stars twinkle above; some distant ones explode,
colours flickering for an instance across the sky; the constellations slowly
rotate away out of my tiny hatch view. There is nothing else. No sound from
outside or interior. Just me and the stars and the wide multiverses above.
Occasionally, just occasionally, it really is nice to
suddenly stop and return to that awe and wonder; to ask oneself those big
questions about space, place, dimension and reality. It was some really cool 40
minutes of stargazing contemplation.
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