if you enjoy short stories philosophy reading or of course all of the above consider checking out my books I published both fiction and non-fiction and if you enjoy pursuit of Wonder content I think you'll really enjoy my books as well the link to them is in the description it's been 29 years since we left things were going well for a while mostly the plan not that we had much of a plan we just needed to get out of there survive explore find somewhere to call home I'm not entirely sure at this point for a while
we were just floating still in a semiconscious state mostly unaware of our surroundings we communicated to each other via brain signals transmitted out into space and across the network of stasis pod ships moving aimlessly through space is not so bad when you're barely conscious and you're not yet worried about arriving anywhere a lot has changed since then system failures cosmic ray damage navigation interference the inherent consequences of a lapse time in a chaotic universe our beta adrenergic blocking agents and Gamma hydroxy berate Supply was supposed to last much longer at least that's what we thought
it began to wear off not too long into The Journey though pretty soon we were only left with each other to keep ourselves sane through our bmis in the ship's Cloud Network we transmitted out and shared our dreams our fears our jokes our sources of joy and hope but things continue to go wrong as we drifted further through space we also drifted further apart from each other the slightest differences in our initial launch conditions increasingly affected our individual trajectories over time sending each ship further and further in its own Direction many of us including myself
tried to override the ship system controls in order to open our stasis pod and access the manual navigation panel but the system wouldn't allow it possibly some sort of system failure or maybe it's just a system doing its job sometimes it's hard to tell the difference soon what was once a crew of many became many crws a few we can't communicate much anymore with those who have drifted further away occasionally we'll intercept a signal scattered thoughts and updates masted in static in obscurity they're increasingly fewer and farther between for a while I tried to fill
in the blanks between signals but pretty soon I mostly just gave up on that individuals that are no longer in range might as well be dead to me I fear some of them might actually be even many of the remaining closer ships have spread out a good distance now it takes us significant amount of energy to transmit and receive signals with them staticy and nonlinear signals greatly limit the depth and Clarity of communication at a certain point it feels like there's not even much to transmit to or receive from them anymore the same weak signals
and updates over and over don't provide much for anyone I'd be lying if I didn't say the empty space didn't feel constricting it's funny how nothing can be so uncomfortable as more time has passed and the Lucidity of my Consciousness has returned more to me the the less hopeful I've become that we'll ever find a destination out here we were all just floating on our own trajectories to Nowhere initially the goal was to arrive somewhere but I think I've realized in the aimless chaos of space that it's better to know how to adapt than to
plan I remember before we left when I used to sit on my balcony and stare up at the stars I remember fantasizing about being up there up here experiencing and journeying through the unknown now I am here and this is how I feel this is the best I can do there are still a couple of ships in functional signal range with me it's been kind of nice actually having just a couple less signals makes it easier to just focus on the close ones most recently one ship in particular has been especially in full clear consistent
signal range and that one ship that one signal feed has provided more to me than what the total network of hundreds of other ships had previously it's almost as if it's it's just our journey now signal strength is still far from perfect it never was though some things nothing can communicate but to share this vast emptiness of space with another individual as deeply as you can I've never felt anything so full perhaps aimlessness is as good of a destination as any if I'm ever going to arrive anywhere maybe I should start here there was nothing
out here for us there never was but now there is us out here I hope the other ships that are still close will stay close I hope that in the distant future perhaps my path will reconvene with those who have drifted further apart and I hope the closest one will remain the closest one but I can't control the cosmos I can't control other ships I can't even control mine we're all subject to the cosmic forces that be but until I drift further away or until all the others do I'm going to try to be happy
or at least okay that I get to be here that I get to Journey Through the stars and that I get to share this even if from afar with anyone at all it will all be over soon if you enjoyed this video and want to help support pursuit of Wonder and my work in general again consider checking out my books I have a new novela out called the closer we get which is a story that explores the complexities of love and the future of human connection or if you prefer non-fiction you could check out The
Art of Living a meaningless existence which contains my collected works that journey through philosophy and grapple with the increasingly relevant problem of finding meaning in what appears for many of us to be an inherently meaningless existence the links for them are in the description and of course as always thank you so much for watching in general and see you next video
