Crash Course

They say that the moon was formed when a giant planet collided into what is now our Earth, and a piece of our planet broke off and started to orbit the newly damaged planet left behind. They say that this is why the Earth is not a perfect sphere. And they say that this incidence was crucial to the formation of life on Earth, for without the moon there would be no us.

And there the moon remains, beautiful yet barren and remote, circling the green Earth in its dark loneliness, pushing and pulling our oceans and keeping us alive.

What if the same thing could happen to us as human beings? What if our whole lives we were placed on a certain path, and we were meant to follow this path? And if we strove towards our goals and never strayed? And then, what if someone else's life collides into yours?

And what if the collision was so magnificent, that your path is altered forever?

And what if a part of you breaks off, never to return again, but remains somehow ever present?

And what if the new you is now a mashup of you and all the little pieces that the other person left behind?

And what if... the new you now contains new life?

There are different kinds of people in this world. We all meet, converse, influence each other in little ways. There are leaders and there are followers. There are decision makers and there are executioners.

And then there are those who make life their own game. Who squeeze it by the balls and refuse to play by the rules. There are those who are afraid of nothing.

And it is they who crash and burn into our lives. And even when they leave, things will never be same again.