The Moon Over The Mail Box

I love science. It's one of those things that I have always had a fascination toward as soon as I learned of it. Our sun, our night sky, our moon, The stars all around. I never was one to take simple answers that my mom or adults gave me about science and space when I asked them questions. What is the sun, how many stars are out in space, when was our planet created, how long does our sun stay on. Those questions I had in my mind pushed me to find the answers on my own.

When I was in elementary school and I was asphyxiated on our sun I read that our sun is a simple star just like the many stars of the night sky. That information blew my mind away the revelation that we have a star like the many stars of the night sky and that each one of those star's may have planets with life like ours. That information I thought about excited me.

I'm a big science fiction novel, short story, and movie watcher but I had no fear of extraterrestrial beings out in space the way they were presented in movies and such. The fear of them is formed in our own mind because we as human beings wouldn't know how to handle seeing a being or creature with our level of intelligence or beyond. Its a fear that we are no longer the top creatures in this galaxy or universe for that instant.

As I began to expand my knowledge of this world and beyond I started to lose grips on the religion I grew up with. I was brought up in an average christian family. I respected what I was taught through it but as I learned more and more on a science scale for me the two couldn't combine. I'm a moral person who respects people rights and freedoms. For me I can't hold it true to my heart that we were made by a mystic being who created this universe in 7 days. I need to see research, I need to see evidence, I need to see mathematical calculations. Our earth is 4 billion years so is our sun. Our solar system is just one out of billions in our galaxy, our galaxy has over a 100 billion stars. For me there may be no after life, no holy land of bliss or a plain of eternal pain and torment. What makes me happy is that I am able to be a animal, a being who is conscious and can see the world and universe for what it is I'm happy about that.

We have so much we don't know and so much we still can learn. This world, This galaxy, This universe has so much to show us we just have to open our eyes and see.