Page 66 - Fallen Thoughts

I was excited to leave Earth, I was born during some of the darkest times

causing massive stress on my young lungs and heart, which caused so many kids

my age, problems. I never any of those things called polar bears that my

grandparents always talked about, I couldn't believe there was a time where the

oceans were not filled with garbage and you could actually swim in them. I was

excited to leave and see a planet that wasn’t brown and toxic. I was excited to start

over.

When I was younger I thought the world would be okay one day. It

certainly seemed like it for a moment.

People did make some progress as the entire world went green with their

energy, using only solar and wind power. Thousands of teams of people tried to

clean up the oceans but that only lasted until I was around 12 years old. What I

didn't realize then was how badly everyone on the planet needed to make a change.
My family was always huge on saving the planet and surrounded

themselves with people who held the same ideals. That's just how I grew up so

trying to understand that billions of people didn't like what we were doing was

shocking to me as a child.
This is our world, our home, why wouldn't we all want to help it?

The next four years, everything went downhill. Everything living began

dying and repairing the damage humans caused was impossible.
I have to hand it to the world leaders though. They only had an estimate of

four years to find a new home and create technology to get us there and send the

first settlers up. Of course, their time frame ended up being less than they thought.
Everything was set, I was packed, I said goodbye to my friends and I

prepared myself for five years in space wandering around a spaceship. Of course
there was also the 30 years of cryogenic sleep we had to endure but that was the

easy part. I also prepared myself for the worst, and I’m glad I did.