You Took The Moon, But Could You Leave The Stars?

            We’ve all heard it before, that the moon is made out of cheese. But my question is why can’t it be? Why can’t we go around hypothesizing that the moon is made of cheese, or that Marvin the Martian is flying around somewhere in space? No, instead NASA had to ruin the moon and prove that it, unfortunately, is not made of cheese. I understand that it was a great mystery that needed to be solved, reaching the moon, or whether or not aliens lived on mars, and why we wanted to find out, but I also wonder if maybe it was better when we didn’t know. Throughout history humankind has always looked to so called frontiers as a source of adventure, but they were and still are more than that. They are a source of dreams and fantasies, a place where we can escape our everyday life to visit something extraordinary. As we grow we learn that fairytales and stories from our childhood are not true, that superpowers are not real, and that prince charming did not wake snow white with a kiss. However even though we may learn that these fantasies are not real in our world, who is to say that they aren’t in another? Sometimes we as humans need this escape, to a place that, even though it may not exist, is much more spectacular than our day to day life and seeing as we have proven that it wasn’t in the new world, it wasn’t in the wild west, and it wasn’t even on the cheeseless moon, well maybe it is somewhere amongst the stars. So I understand that we all want to know the answers to life’s mysteries, but maybe the secret of these mysteries is not so much in the solution but in the mystery itself. So I ask you, as a dreamer, even though the fantasies of the moon were taken, can we keep the dreams of the stars alive?