Becoming Plastic

Before, it was just us. We used to live in a world that was just ours, navigating through a immensity of blue, colored by a vastness of colors. Our nature was balanced, we had what to worry about, but, above all, we had life. Family. Companions. Our blue immensity was our part of the planet, where we could adventure ourselves through the deepest of oceans, play in the rapids and among the corals.

Recently the surface has become rough, but we didn’t care. Our life is simple, for many of us it is short. We are born, we grow, we have kids and we die. But in the middle of it all, there is a beauty of indispensable nature. The beauty of the simple fact that we exist, therefore, we can. We can do whatever we want if we take the risks.

Then, who had been shaking our world’s surface showed up. Many of us already knew them, but most of us only knew what they do. What they bring. Just like us, they exist. Their intelligence is astonishing, and at the same time, devastating. To them, we are inferior. To them, the world must serve them. The oceans who once belonged to us were taken by them. Giant watercrafts pass above our heads and by our sides, bigger than the biggest whale I’ve ever met. As harmful as the hungriest shark.

New threats were introduced in our environment. When the sunlight crosses the water and reveals their positions, they shine like stars, but they’re not pretty. Their texture is funny down here and they navigate with us through the waters, too light to hit the ground, unconscious of what they cause. Where there are many of them, I can’t swim properly. I can’t search for my food. Some, I heard, even mistake them with food and end up dying. I wonder if one day I’ll join them.

I would very much like living at the time were my ancestors lived. When our problems were others, less concerning. When our world, everything we knew, was ours. Our world is becoming hostile, what we breathe is becoming toxic. I fear for my descendants, I fear for myself.

Slowly, our world is being dominated by something that doesn’t belong here.

Our planet is becoming plastic.