The 1960's were full of exciting space adventures. Every boy and girl wanted to be the next astronaut. The papers lived and breathed these missions but so did the people. David Bowie took a moment to remind us that its still a brave and daring mission and it doesn't always work out in our favor.
The same can be true in our lives. We tend to focus on how we are seen by others as we live in our own 15 minutes of fame, we want to find some way of being remembered. We want our big moment to be a big moment for everyone. Everyone needs to have the same image, our image, engrained into their being. From what we wore, what we saw and who we were.
But that's the oddity of life. We are as out of control of our own lives as we are in space. You don't know where its going to end, you don't know where your place in it is, you don't know the last breath you will take. You don't know what you'll be remembered for or if you will be remembered at all.
For some of us, we spend our entire life trying to feel in control, feeling like we have some ideas of where we are going and what we are doing but in reality we are being controlled by things much bigger than us and accepting that is the same as accepting our defeat sometimes. It doesn't matter who we were, if our names or clothes are remembered and even the view we saw. It won't affect the billions on the planet. And the trick is that it doesn't need to. It needs to only affect one; Just like the character's life did in his song. He asked for the one person that should remember him, his wife. Change the world a person at a time, help whoever you can help while you float in this space we call life. Be bold, be daring, be brave and experience all you can because maybe the only person you will affect is yourself.
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