The whole world walked with him
Saturday, August 25th, 2012 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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RIP Neil Armstrong
The television image was grainy, fuzzy. His voice crackled and sputtered as it made its way over hundreds of thousands of miles. Looking back, it can seem anti-climactic - just a guy going down a ladder. But how my heart leapt into my eight-year-old throat when his foot came down and touched the surface: the first human being to arrive elsewhere. It changed me, it changed my life. It changed so many lives. It changed...the world. We weren't earthbound anymore. For a brief time, we ventured away from our little blue jewel. Only baby steps, but humanity took them. We took them, and for a time, it seemed inevitable that we would take another, and another, and another. One day, we would grow up, leave the nest, make our way in the wider cosmos. And now I wonder, will we ever go out our front door again?
*wipes away tears*
RIP Neil Armstrong
The television image was grainy, fuzzy. His voice crackled and sputtered as it made its way over hundreds of thousands of miles. Looking back, it can seem anti-climactic - just a guy going down a ladder. But how my heart leapt into my eight-year-old throat when his foot came down and touched the surface: the first human being to arrive elsewhere. It changed me, it changed my life. It changed so many lives. It changed...the world. We weren't earthbound anymore. For a brief time, we ventured away from our little blue jewel. Only baby steps, but humanity took them. We took them, and for a time, it seemed inevitable that we would take another, and another, and another. One day, we would grow up, leave the nest, make our way in the wider cosmos. And now I wonder, will we ever go out our front door again?
*wipes away tears*
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Date: Sunday, August 26th, 2012 02:14 am (UTC)So true, and so perfect. I fervently hope we will walk elsewhere again. And again.
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Date: Monday, August 27th, 2012 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, August 27th, 2012 04:14 am (UTC)Damn. We used to dream big, didn't we?
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Date: Monday, August 27th, 2012 08:01 am (UTC)