The Weight of the Past

By Iain Aschendale · Aug 27, 2019 · ·
  1. I dunno.

    There's that video where the guy pauses his game, looks out the front door, and sees the steppe.

    Had the chance to take an overnight ferry recently. Standing on the observation deck past midnight, staring out at the darkened islands slipping slowly by, feeling the thrum of the engines and the wind on my face. Mrs. A said she could see my grandfather on me in that moment.

    He commanded a warship tasked with killing her grandfather.

    They both made it through, but they're both gone now.

    See you at Yasukuni.

    Heritage? No, none thank you. Nor future. Just one of those buds that never flowered, a bump on a bare branch.

    The way I always wanted it. The planet doesn't have long now, only five billion years or so, but the biosphere is approaching one of those evolutionary bottlenecks, and I think if I really tried, I could make it to the Extinction.

    Probably not, they keep throwing around numbers like “by the end of this century” and with my current age, genetics, and baked-in health decisions, that's not in the cards. But there's always hope.

    Hope that things could speed up, that is.

    See you at Yasukuni.

Comments

  1. GrahamLewis
    The past weights for no man, mon.
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