History in the Making - Part 26

Post date: Apr 4, 2016 9:39:50 PM

As soon as it started to get dark, I went outside to some fresh air and to look at the sunset, while the others tried to accommodate the newcomers as they represented hope for the future... In some sense...

I didn't felt like socializing... I can't shake the weird feeling that we're in very serious trouble! Though, no more meteors have been spotted since early in the morning, but even so no help was to be seen or even sirens to be heard. Nobody was coming... It seams...

I recall some documentary that, historically, the human race have survived quite a lot minor global extinction events, and that mass extinctions occur about every 27 million years. I remember clearly the dark comment "...and we're overdue for the next one.". Those words just can't leave my mind.

From inside I can hear fainted loud laughs... I smile to myself and just look up... In the sky, many stars start to show themselves more and more clearly like inside a planetarium... Funny... The right thing to say about it, would be that the planetarium looked like the real sky... It looks and feels humongous!

Laying myself beside the garden near the entrance of the bunker, I look first at it and then, in a slow breath I turned my attention to the now completely illuminated dark sky and start losing myself in it.

Trying to imagine the wonders of the Universe I ended up thinking of some TV series about space travel and how wonderful it would have be if it was a reality... I wouldn't have to be there, passing through all I've been since yesterday... Saw so much death around...

I can't help but feel deeply sad... worthless... helpless...

Suddenly I noticed something moving in the sky, and as I tried to get up quickly, I took another glance and realized that it was in fact a true shooting star and not another meteorite as I instantly feared, so... I laid back down... But something was not feeling right...