Among the stars

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live among the stars? I used to. Then I grew up, and I learned things about space, and I didn't have to wonder anymore. I learned a lot of really important things that you have to remember when it comes to living among the stars.

First of all, among the stars is a really general, unhelpfully vague term. There is really no "among the stars." Space is a vast emptiness, with the stars being unbelievably far apart, so at no point are you truly among them as we might think of being among something on Earth. To think of it on a scale that would apply to stars in space, you'd realize that on Earth you are already among the stars.

Secondly, space is not very conducive to allowing people to live. It's cold beyond belief, meaning that without specially designed, rather uncomfortable clothing, you would near instantly freeze to death. Not only that, but there is no air to breath, and so you have to carry all of your own oxygen with you, meaning that you can only be out there for a limited time. And beyond even that, there is no food or drink that we can sustain ourselves off of, meaning that you have to bring your own, limiting your time there even further.

Past those things, you'd have to find a suitable place to settle down. You can't really live as we think of it if you are simply drifting aimlessly in space. Therefore, you have to find some kind of planet or asteroid to call home. But no planet is anything like our Earth. At least none that we can reasonably find. So it's kind of akin to buying a fixer upper home. Sure, you can do it. But chances are you wouldn't really want to.

Unfortunately for me, I learned all of these things a little too late. So I'm writing this, floating around in space, running short on air, and food, and water. I thought I could live among the stars. But it didn't really work out in my favor. I'm probably not gonna make it much longer, seeing as I don't have any way of getting back to Earth. I don't even particularly know why I'm writing this. Chances are no one will ever see it. But I figure perhaps someone else will attempt my mistake, and perhaps by some crazy chance they will find this before they do, and save themselves the heartache.

But hey. At least I can say, to some extent, I lived the last of my days the way I had always wanted to. Among the stars.