New Beginnings

New Beginnings

Final Journal Entry.

    No one hears me anymore. Not a single soul can hear me. Nature took back the planet and I’m the last here. The buildings that are still here are more green than anything else. I never knew everything could be so green, so lush with trees and flowers. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I wish everyone knew that the planet would flourish with greenery once they all left. They left and left me here on the planet with nothing but a long life span and a bit of clothing. If only they knew how beautiful this looks. The heavy scent of flowers blooming, birds singing, and the peace that nature bestows upon a planet is intoxicating. Living here alone has taught me more about how uneducated we ,as a race, were before venturing off to other planets. Taking everything and turning the planet into a living trash bin, without realising that they are killing the planet and when they finally did realize it, it was already too late. Though it has taken decades for the plantlife to take over again and will take longer still for it to flourish, it looks so much more beautiful. I’ve lived on this planet for over two centuries. The first twenty five years of my life was spent in a school next to factories. The next twenty five years were spent  in a factory full of smoke, steel and burned flesh when someone would singe their skin on uncooled steel. The next fifty years I watched the planet slowly dieing because of all the steel mills and construction going on. Any greenery that was around was burned, pillars of smoke would arise from forests and other locations around the planet. The government would call them forest fires from lightning strikes or arson from the fools who go out camping and don’t douse their campfires. Then there is me, silently watching the planet wither away and die, not doing anything about it. Even as everyone started seeing what was happening they packed up and went off world, when I told the Head minister that the world would flourish with life again after they left, he decided to leave me here and force me to die with the world. They said I’d be dead after a couple of weeks but, they didn't realise how much nature can give to keep someone alive. Living‒ no surviving in this peaceful place has become easier as time goes on. I have a shelter, food, water, and I seem to be welcomed by the wildlife. This is home to me, a lush green planet full of life and excitement, not a steel box floating from planet to planet. I am home and here is where I will stay until the day that I die.

    Jackson Torig