Tommy Irons

NGC 6302

“There’s a small line of justification where one can want and one can need, but if one can (and has the ability to) need, what can one possibly want?”
It’s odd, the word odd. It implies a lack of normality. As if light reflection (the normal) was the contextual purpose at the time. I mean, I guess it always is. But in terms of presence and being, what’s the point? If I’m having a conversation with someone, I wouldn’t care if I had a speech impediment, was deaf and/or blind.

Because there is little more important than simple human interaction;

a definitive aspect of human attraction. We push ourselves forward, always the ‘right’

direction. But what if we want to bare left? Slightly off course, not 90 degrees.

Would we evolve to being entirely deaf? Would the English language be abolished, for none

to see? Just, left?

I’d rather go backwards. I’d rather use my own words, expel a sound from my body, similar to the action of birds. Use my own mind, explore my inner ‘nerd’. See what happened 14 billion years ago; how 10¯?³ seconds was rather exponential.

We’ve got a ‘star’ naming their offspring after a star. A star we designated as ‘North’! I mean, we haven’t even been to Mars, and that’s only fourth! I’d advise we get our heads straight, and stop being depressed. Because, in terms of time, damn, we’re a bit late! I’m not saying we have less, but, really, I have about 80 years left – thanks to the NHS (No Heart Stoppings) – and I’d be damned if I don’t see the world without rest.

All I’m asking is that we take a step back, and realise where we are. We’re in an (so far) ever-

growing, eternal universe that stretches really, really far!

93 billion light years. My, that’s remarkable. Luckily, we aren’t trapped in a dark black hole.

We are free information, able to escape the event horizon. We’re free to explore.

So, please, join me in wanting more! If you need a reason why to, look up NGC 6302.

Or, easier, just look up. It’s waiting for you.