istherelifeonmars
istherelifeonmars
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| Member | Feb 22, 2008 (18 years) |
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I came to Mars two years ago, and theres really not that much different from home, or at least where I grew up on Earth. Charge cards, plastic bodies, classy transportation, and fake people; pretty much synthetic everything including friendship, so I should be used to the OC. Still though, on cold nights when the Tharsis winds whip up and the sun retreats behind the burning coast it feels very alien and alone, even if the greenbacks next door keep the empty skies filled with awful music.
I came here to follow the Martian dream, which is really just the Earthling dream on a much more self-centered, ego-absorbed scale. For some reason pop culture has built up this illusion of Mars as a happening, inspiring, and beautiful place where your fantasies come true. So far though all I see is a sprawling red desert and inhabitants fighting nature in vain to hold onto land which really shouldn't support life, human or otherwise. I'm suspicious that it's all a giant marketing ploy to generate revenue for a government more interested on hording resources and taxpayer dollars than prosperity of advancement of the Martian people. Really though, as forward thinking as Mars is supposed to be, the trend setting cultural hub of this half of the solar-system as it is, it's rather behind morally and intellectually than most of the Outer Worlds, or even Earth and Venus by now, I'd be willing to wager.
I came to this planet just to be disappointed thus far, but I'm not willing to give up hope on the decency of the Martian people. I may have just chosen a dull place to live first, too close to the barren wastes that make up the majority of the countryside. I do plan on moving closer to the shore, closer to the city, closer to the scene I've wished to be a part of since a child. Looking up at that blinking little red eye in the evening or on the broadcast during the day, I think I've always wanted to come here as far back as I can remember. I've always felt like I didn't belong in Washington DC, that my destiny was tethered to a distant, magical place.
I still have yet to find the Mars of my dreams, but I've only just begun my search, and I'm closer now than I've ever been in my little human life.
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