Star Sailor

She looked out the window, hazy dots of lights splattered the dark and endless galaxy.

Years of devotion had finally shown their worthy results.

She leaped out of the hatch with all her vigor.

Her confidence radiated like the stars, she would make her stamp on the world. 

She reached for the moon with all her might, but fell among the stars. 

Stumped, she redirected her goal with even more force she thought she could conjure.

This time she aimed for the biggest star in the Milky Way.

She once more jumped with all her might, but was stuck floating between supernovae and remnants of stardust. 

Frustrated yet amazed, she looked to bigger and better things.

Even with all her might she was only able to reach the dwarf planets, like Pluto. 

She felt ashamed.

Why should she keep trying for better things, if she would just keep falling?

She stayed in that dull state for a while, with a dejected mind and blank face.

In her silence she looked ahead, at the expansion of everything.

Everything looked just out of reach.

She realized that what she wanted–the wonders of the universe–were at the tip of her fingers and in her power to accomplish.

All she had to do was leap.

Overpowering her discouraged spirits, was her astonishment for life, living, and being where she was now.

She started seeing her failures as moments to learn from and maybe even to laugh at in the future. She started enjoying her rigorous process, experiencing it with all her might.

She learned her self-worth and internal strength would always make her reach for above and beyond.

As she floated in the deep abyss of space, with meteorites dispersed around her, scattered stars and distant suns being her only guide, she looked beyond the superficial.

This place wasn’t just an extraordinary, thrilling endless void that mysteriously commenced the start of the universe and everything there after. 

This place sculpted her character, it made her who she was.

For this, she was forever grateful.

She pulled herself into her spaceship, looked onward, and sailed for the stars.