Waking up every day very early in the morning by this amazing beautiful view, seeing sun rise from your room. The purple pinkish color turning to red makes you wonder about yourself. How lucky I am to see this everyday, it is high time to say your wishes, some impossible things you want to make them possible. Open the window and let the wind touch your face, let your feelings and your emotions get some fresh air.
A memory flashes back to my mind from when I was just ten years old, I had one big dream which I was ready to do anything and everything to make it become true. I had a little wallet with me most of the time on me, not for carrying money but for carrying my dreams. A cut-out piece of magazine’s photo of Neil Armstrong standing on the moon. That was my dream to stand there as he did. I did not dream to see him, or to be astronaut, I dreamed to be on the moon, to go to the outer space. Besides that picture, I had something far more valuable in it, which I was trying to hide from everyone, including my sister. I knew if she would find it, she was going to make fun of me. So, I kept it safe for a long time until one day finally she found it.
But she didn’t make fun of me, she looked at me and said you are really crazy. She was very surprised to find that note. It was my will. yes I had a will at age of ten. It was obviously not normal to have your will when you are so young. However the content of it was not anything she or anyone else would anticipate. I asked my family to buried my body on the moon. Call it passion or being desperate to get to what you want even after your death.
The first time I felt that desire, that passion or better to say the hunger of knowing more, was when I just learned to read and I was practicing my reading skills by reading any thing I found rather than my school books. My brother had a book of maps called The world’s atlas, full of maps of all continents and countries and whatever exist in our planet. I started to read from first page, the table of contents, preface and introduction. That introduction was the part that has changed me forever. It was so bizarre a mind blowing, the story of us being part of vast and enormous galaxy. About planets and and how far they are from us. I felt something I never had experienced before, The desire, the hunger to know more…
And that was just the beginning …
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