Perspective

[Meiun]

Loneliness:

...stale, wet air filled the cabin. Something must be wrong with the climate control system again. Waking for another shift of flight time, I reach out and turn off the fan blowing down into my bunk. I've been out surfing in the Whale again. She's a nice ship, but the excitement ends once the course is set and the autopilot begins the jump sequences.

I picked up some reading materials while on a short hop to planet Cambridge. That lot of folk are a bit too smart for their own good. Seems to me they could use a smidge of real life experience if you know what I mean. Flying to and fro across the known universe gives one a larger sense of belonging, a bit more... perspective.

Research what you will. Nothing compares to actually catching the brow of a solar wind... turn off the engines, scale back the mag-wave and listen to the prickly whisk of particles slap against the hull, shoving your ship forward ever so slight. Dangerous? Hell yeah! Of course it is, but what is life without the dangers of experience?

If I can get away with it, I'll stay off the bridge for hours at a time, allowing the rumble of the engines to sooth me, or sitting in a turret observing the stars in a wide expanse. I've had "companions" on board many occasion, but never for too long. There is a sanctity I wish to be preserved. A loneliness I long to encounter.

I've come to understand that it's okay to be lonely as long as you're free.

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