A journey towards outer space is truly an exploration of inner space. Both are truly deep.
Both have basic and fundamentally deeper questions, which still seek answers irrespective of the questioner and when and where it was asked.
For I think, only when we journey into deep space we're truly beholding the journey on Earth too. How lonely, how transitory, how insignificant our life and its pursuits are.
How most individual humans' thoughts are similar to collective humanity's views: selfishness, utter helplessness, loneliness, past remembrances, reminiscences, the path ahead, the will to survive et al.
How the proverbial sins of the father (forefathers) affect the son(s)... Whether we are in orbit at the outer edges of the solar system or in motion on Earth, we're always in search. Seeking an end to our loneliness, a permanent home perhaps.
Where truly is our home? Are we not forever on a journey inside and outside? Aren't we always traveling without ever arriving?
Isn't this planet we think of as home also just a spaceship at the edge of the Milky Way, part of our known universe? Aren't we all truly just astronauts within, hurtling through space?
We have to make this journey count for no one else can do it for us. But I don't know how... How to make it count?
