Leaving Home

Perhaps today is the day they said, this makes me remember, I long recall those days, those glorious days when we left our home, our little blue home, totally different where those times, the problems we faced where those of the ones who leave home for the first time, where are we going now we´ve asked ourselves so many times, and after a while we had it all planned, but it still seemed a great mistake, it was risky, not everybody agreed, but we left anyway, we had to.

Who could have predicted what the years to come have reserved for us, those were not easy years, many of them are not here to tell, but the bravest and smartest ones managed to survive, to grow, to adapt, and them we changed, we grew up like a child leaving his baby-bed for the first time, taking the first steps and getting to know the world he live in.

It was not easy at all, we had to manipulate our genetics, leave behind antiquate concepts and beliefs, society rules, taboos, were all left behind in order to survive, we changed most of what we were once, to become more adaptative, wiser, stronger.

The human race evolved, evolved and evolved, faced new huge problems from time to time, and got amazed with new unforeseen worlds now and them. And yet after all this happened one thing I can tell, we never lost our spirit, to explore the universe was only the beginning of it, we started to look deep down ourselves to discover amazing things.

Now about a hundred thousand years from them, I tell you, even though for millenia we don´t speak something you call a language, and we may look diferent, but we are still the same. Only stronger.

And we are stronger because we never stoped, always stood up after a fall. Like we ever did before as the day we left home.

by Eric Magnus.