Man, the Moon, and the Stars… Just a little something to ponder on a starry night.
The Earth, the Moon, and the Stars in relation to mankind has existed forever. Modern mans experience and the scientific proof found to support the facts is now some 20,000+ years.
With each new discovery modern civilized man spans an ever increasing period of time. Structures and monuments that would have challenged today’s building technology are now being dated back beyond 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Structures that indicated advanced skills and technologic achievement. Evidence of lost knowledge that has only been regained within the last few hundred years… as well as achievements that still have scientists puzzled. Civilizations that advanced an understanding of the Earth, the Stars, seasons, and a calendar that spanned 10’s of thousands of years both before their time, and after, into the future beyond their existence. Science keeps finding more and more evidence of advanced capabilities that ancient man knew and used to build and shape their world, that was somehow lost to time. Certainly there are many more questions than answers and with every new answer, and there are that many more questions.
How did everything begin… where did we come from… was mankind helped in the past by more intelligent beings. More and more stories passed down by religions and native beliefs are being confirmed as factual. Ancient writings and drawings are filling in the pieces of the human puzzle as to what happened and when. But again, each bit of knowledge brings many more questions. Enlightening and interesting to say the least… and while I enjoy the facts and truth of the past as the pieces of mankind's puzzle are discovered… I mainly reflect on my life and experiences and ponder my own time… yet sometimes beyond. Looking that the Moon and the Stars can certainly make you wonder what kind of life others had thousands of years ago as they gazed upon the exact same Stars as I was looking at tonight. Seeing exactly the same thing now, as they saw thousands of years ago. What were they thinking… the same as me?
Where they thinking of people from their past or perhaps wondering how people thousands of years in the future could be in this same spot… looking at the same moon and stars… thinking just what they were thinking… feeling the same feelings… and somehow finding a peace with everything as they gaze into the heavens. I myself can gaze at the stars and somehow feel a kindred spirit in some small part, that is shared by the feeling that hundreds if not thousands of years ago… someone was exactly where I was now… looking at the same moon and stars… having the same feelings. The moon and the stars can do that to you… take you to an inkling of another place in time beyond the present. Kinda makes the current world with all it’s trouble slip away. Yep, the moon and stars are a great source of speculation and wonderment that has fueled religions, beliefs, scientific knowledge, and understanding in some small scope, of mankind and the universe in which we live. When you think about it… pretty much everything on which we base our lives, existence, and future to, has come from the Earth and the Stars. 
No wonder they hold such mystique and wonderment… now if they could only talk to tell us the stories of the past… so that searching for every bit of history… like a needle in the haystack… wouldn’t be so hard and drawn out. So just sit back, clear away everything of the present, and just focus on the earth, the moon and the stars… clear your mind and gaze into the heavens as if your mind is searching for answers. You may feel something, or maybe not… but at the least you can forget about the worlds troubles at least for a few moments… and refresh yourself and your wellbeing. So go out and enjoy the night sky, perhaps with a different perspective in mind.
