"Wish upon a shooting star"

My friends and I were talking about that. The universe fascinates me. Specially since we just learnt about it in physics. Yes, boring me pays attention to physics. But when the topic is "The Universe", you can't really expect me not to listen.

The fact that stars exist...these large spheres of flaming gas... they're out there. We see them everyday like it's something normal. What's normal about these huge things flaming their asses off (yes, i know they don't have any) out there...and so many of them! Imagine...those things can kill us.

Imagine if there was absolutely NOTHING blocking our vision from stars... that huge stream of stars, running across the sky... and this isn't even the beginning. We're just on one of the wings of the milkyway. And to think there are more of those 'galaxy things' out there, receding from us and becoming faster and faster at receding...

And about the life 'out there'. This, I'm sure most of us have thought of, wondering if there really are green things with beetle-like black eyes and three-fingered-hands. If they exist, will they make us non-existant? Or will they merely observe us? Wondering what us, paculiar creatures are.

How do we know we're not getting controlled by them? How do we know we're not just puppets, all part of an experiment? How are we sure there really ARE more galaxies out there? So many questions...and they can't be answered. Yet, we continue to live, without a single thought of what's around us. What's actually happening. If our planet, along with the rest of the galaxy is just a speck of the huge system?