The biased truth of the stars.

just a thought: we wish on shooting stars. but shooting stars are space debris that burn as it enters the earth's atmosphere, the burning is what we see. So technically, we wish on something that ceases to exist as soon as we become aware of it.


and similarly: it takes lightyears upon lightyears for the twinkle of distant stars to reach the earth. And so, when we look up at the night sky, we are actually looking at the very essence of time- the presentness of the night sky, the past of the light of the stars, and the future of our own gazes reaching those stars lightyears upon lightyears from now. Doesn't it strike you as interesting that the very star you may be looking at now might not even exist anymore? And maybe by the time our whispered wishes reach the stars somewhere out there, we don't want them to come true anymore.

The past illuminates the way to the future, indeed.