I have been watching, and I am pleased.
We are a curious people. We have gone into the expanse, and we have made it our home. We have touched the edge of it all, and we've returned. And yet even now, there is so much we don't know. I have observed from my window, watching it all, people, rocks, ships, all of it, watching all of it pass by me, into places I can't see. As I look deep into the abyss, it seems to go on without me. There are moons, planets, stars, galaxies that have slipped by, untouched by us, that we are eager to explore, even when we know not where they are. There are many things that we do not know, even now, after all this time in the nothingness that is everything. We do not know what we are looking for, but we want to find it, for it is the thing we are best at; finding that which we know not of.
And as I look out of my window, despite what we have not found and what we do not know, we have and know so much more than those of old could have hoped for. There are planets with people, moons with bases, stations in orbits, ships going through the nothingness, and much more. The emptiness is there, and always will be, but at least we know how it works, how to cross it.
Yet the more I look into the abyss, the more I feel as though I am about to be sucked into it, into the vast nothingness of everything, as though the window will open and I will be left in the void without hope of surviving. It is this feeling that has been my one only fear for a long time. I do not know how long, but it has been for longer than I can remember. Though despite this, I refuse to move. Despite how scared I am, afraid I am, unsure I am. I will not move from where I am because of the vastness of what is in front of me.
Because it is beautiful.
It is wonderful, amazing, perfect in every way. It meets and subverts what you expect to see time and time again, no matter if you have seen it once, twice or even more. It is a cursed beauty that could hurt you, yet is also an enchanting gift that wants you to stay, to be its friend. It shows you many things you do not know and what you have not seen so that you may be happy and want to stay for a bit longer.
And it is this, it is this that has made me pleased. Because we have survived long enough to see and understand the expanse that surrounds us.
