That bright ball in the nightsky

As I sat at a bus shelter on a cold Tuesday evening, after coming from work, I stared at the gleaming moon and wondered. I wondered what would happen if the moon suddenly defied His leave and plummeted to the eternally dark abyss we know as space/time. It’d mean no more gazing at the moon as I spent lonely nights pondering about life, no more sightings of the moon marking the beginning of a new universal month. No more English granddads telling their grandchildren of the man on the moon and certainly no more kids jesting at the idea of the moon being made of cheese. I would not be able to wish upon the moon in guilty escapism. No more telling people that the gravitational pull of the Moon is 1/6 of that of the Earth’s.

These thoughts then turned to imagining the non-existence of the Earth itself and everything else I take for granted. I giggled to the dismay of the man sitting next to me. I was opposite a car rental shop that was surrounded by guarding gates. I foolishly imagined what would happen if the Earth itself decided to plummet and wondered if it was physically possible to grab onto the gates. Was it possible to defy the laws of the gravitational fields and be removed from the Earth’s tumultuous pull? My mind then did a somersault as the plethora of ideas and fantasies running through my mind themselves plummeted into the hazy ground that was my conscious.

*take a look outside and silently marvel at that bright ball in the sky*

*smile now :)*

Salamu alaykum