Old to Young!

We almost always see ourselves as we are in our dreams. Albeit donning different costumes, behaving strangely or seldom mimicking the likes of somebody else. I saw myself as an inanimate object (was it inanimate, I wonder!).

Like most of my dreams, this also takes place in outer space. Maybe I am reading too many NASA articles. I was a part of larger nebula far far away in the vast infinites. Like me too, there were other parts of the nebula who could talk among ourselves.

I was a part of the genesis of our universe!! Could you believe it?

So the punchline being said, this is how it went about… The part of the nebula that was to be the ‘Sun’ gathered us around and said- “Look, we are going to form a galaxy. You guys are a part of it. This will form 700 light years away. First we need to break away from here and travel 670 light years, then I would break away and form the sun 30 more light years away. Let me go down and see how the surroundings are. I will signal if all is okay and you can then follow me and form the planets.”

Planets, I wondered… What planet? I was used to being in a cloud of dust and gas. Sometimes, in a few light years we could see supernovas at a great distance. That, for us was the ultimate combination of colours. Being a planet was definitely outside my comfort zone. And to think a planet would rarely have colour- cold, distant, barren. Sigh!

The journey started and we separated from our parent nebula. Because we are interplanetary objects, we are capable of travelling at the speed of light (maybe faster because in my dreams, we covered the distance in a few minutes). Sometimes it was an uphill trip and sometimes I was falling in an endless pit; because, the concept of gravity is a little lost in space.

Anyway, our journey came to a halt whereas the ‘Sun’ continued to travel further in the cosmos. We kept an eye on the sun while it spun rapidly producing large amounts of energy and summoning gravity. After about 30 seconds (which is probably a lot of time in real world), he gave us the NOD. We followed suit. Each celestial body was assigned a planet and I fell somewhere in the middle. I was tired from all the travel and needed a shut eye. All the while thinking the fun days at the nebula are over… zzzz…

When I opened my eyes (possibly a few billion years later), I saw hues that I had never seen in the outer space before. There were lush green trees, and chirping of birds. Such melodious sounds! I could hear, I could see. I had life! Could it be… I was ‘The Earth’. Although last night I slept feeling old and grey, I now felt fresher than I ever did in a million years. 

All I did was smile!