Monday, October 13, 2008
The Future Earth
In my dream I stood in a little girl's bedroom window lined with pink ruffles. From the window I looked out onto a dark night and a wooded park. A woman and the girl who occupied the room came in and spoke to me. They handed me something that allowed me to fly. I stepped out onto the window ledge and jumped. I flapped my arms, which made me go faster and higher. Once I got the hang of flying I took off, soaring and speeding through the night. I flew into outerspace and through time. I approached a planet Earth in the distant future. I watched it change as I circled it. It changed from a lush green and blue sphere to a clear orb containing nothing but machinery. I watched as the biosphere collapsed and became nothing but metal technology. A sinking feeling came to me: We destroyed Earth. We used up everything good it had and replaced it with ugliness and metal. I flew home as fast as I could. The woman and the girl were waiting for me. I told them what I saw. They said I had seen 180 years into the future, but that no future was set in stone. They said because I circled the orb and saw the future, that I had sealed the fate of the planet. They said the only way to stop the destruction from happening was if I was to fly back there and make a reverse course of circle rotations around the earth. I had to circle the same number of times I had circled when I first visited, except backwards. They said only then would the future still be open for change. So I did it. I flew all the way back to Earth's future and I reversed my course. I had to save Earth. I had to make sure it had a chance of surviving. A chance for us to stop our destruction.
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