lost in space

Space is - vast, expansive and far-reaching - beyond our comprehension. And we are in all probablity lost in it. Humans may be content in mapping a portion of the heavens and placing their tiny world in it, and then sitting back compacently viewing the spectecal. But, the fact remains, space is the final frontier, totally unconquerable and unknown and mysterious. The more we delve into it the more it eludes us, just like a mirage.

Space fascinates me. I have always looked up at the sky and found a world beyond worlds, a place without substance, all in nothing, so little in such immense a domain. They say that most of the space is empty, vacuous, nil and without anything, it is just dark and cold and freezing where time has no meaning, where light can't penetrate, where there is only nothingness. Wouldn't that be wonderful to behold? a spectre of outer world, a thing of magic, a perfect abyss at one's feet!

I want to experience that nothingness, I want to touch the precipice of that huge chasm, I want to look into and beyond this darkest regions and begin to unfold its hidden mysteries, for mysteries immense there are in it. Is heaven there somewhere in this realm? Is hell a part of this nether midnight world? do people migrate to this colossal palace when they die? does it ring of souls dead? I refuse to believe, no, my mind frankly rejects the idea, that space of such proportions is largely devoid of anything, is it an anthropromorphic view? perhaps, but, then I'm in human bondage and cannot profess to have any other, hence my insistence on finding 'purpose' in everything, in trying to assign reason for existence of everything.

I wish I could be literally lost in space, just like the characters of the old Tv show of the same name, and could wander endlessly in space encountering one adventure after another, discovering one new thing after another.

In a way we all are travelling in space, rather hurtling at a tremendous speed of 16000 miles per hr into space alongwith the whole of the Milky Way with its millions of stars, where are we all going and till when will we carry on.... is anyone's guess?