Where is Your Starship

As far as this dude (trying to be modern) can ascertain, the “Enterprise” is the most sublime, magnificent, grandiose, famous, and significant starship that mankind has come up with. Naturally, it doesn’t really exist, except in the movies, my mind, and my imagination.

     Years ago, where my younger self gallivanted to Florida in an old pick-up truck, one of the first beaches I actually enjoyed was on Anna Marie Island on the Gulf…if one totaled up all the hours I spent there, it would be well over 150.  Listening to and watching the waves of antiquity splash against the shore, and eyeballing the bikinis stroll by (I may be 69, but I am not dead), my highly imaginative imagination ran wild on many subjects. 

     Closing my eyes, my starship entitled “Imagination” would conjure up a myriad of adventures, all of which were beyond my mental, physical, and emotional capabilities.  Naturally, attempting to comprehend anything that appears to be un-accomplishable is actually a good path to wander down, for it adds some mystery to your life, which in turn, forces your mind and imagination to explore all those billions of synaptic connections in your cerebral cortex, just to see what might appear in your mind’s eye.

     For instance; when zig-zaging, wandering, jaunting, floundering, and otherwise strolling along the beach, I fantasized about having my own personal starship, which I naturally named “Imagination.”  I would “beam” aboard, fire up the engines to warp 20 (fast isn’t she?), and in less than a minute, would be gallivanting through the cosmos…just to see what I could discover.

     Have you ever seen a star go nova (explode)? What a stirring site!  Ever roam through a nebula? It is akin to being lost in a cloud. And when I really wish to be stunned into a mind numbing experience, I navigate my starship to approximately 100,000 light years above the galactic core of our Milky Way Galaxy, and settle at “station-keeping.”  From there, I can absorb the beauty of the galaxy rotating (actually, it takes about 250 million of our years for it to make one rotation), My optical orbs (eye balls) can inhale the whirling of a neutron star, the black hole at the center as it gobbles up everything within its “event horizon” (stars that wander too close to its grasp), and a star igniting as it is being born.

     And that’s not all folks! When you consider that there are an estimated 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy, and that there are billions of galaxies (some of them with an estimated one trillion stars), you cannot help but try to calculate how many other life forms abide here. It is mankind’s arrogance that believes we are the only living creatures in all of this.

     And if that doesn’t tickle your innards, you may wish to opine over the facts that everyone’s time is different, space-time can be bent (there is a theory about ghosts here), and that time itself doesn’t really exist.

     What we “bags of mostly water” need to understand, is that everyone of us has the capabilities to accomplish almost anything we desire…and all you have to do is reach deep within your mind, conjure up your own personal dream, make the decision that nothing and no-one is going to stop you, the determination that you are willing to pay the price, put your personal starship into warp drive, and go for it.

     I have heard that space is the final frontier…but I personally truly believe that the human mind, combined with the imagination, is the real final frontier - for when you combine them with knowledge, your opportunities are literally endless. And if you will practice utilizing your mental, physical, and emotional facilities, and allow your imagination to run wild with them, then just fire up your personal starship, and imagine what you can do with you and your life.