By Robin Lewis-Light
“Do you think there is anyone out there?” said my wife, Callie. I looked at her.
“I don’t know,” I said. “We haven’t heard anything from anywhere else though, so why should there be anyone on that little planet?”
She smiled and held me. We had finished our anniversary celebrations and were now looking up at the sky together, and just chatting.
We had been together for nearly fourteen years now, and it had gone well. No, let’s be honest, it had gone brilliantly! My wife and I enjoyed each other’s company, and we are still hopelessly in love.
We had eaten well tonight; I had made sure that she and I went to our favourite place.
I smiled. We had aged a little, but then, hasn’t everyone? Now, we were just looking at the stars.
The little point of light we were looking at was not a star, though. It was the nearest planet to ours, and though there was little chance of there being life there, the usual conspiracy theorists had created stories of what an amazing and/or frightening place it could be.
We had no way of going there, so it had to remain as speculation. I wondered if there was anybody up there, and if there was, I hoped they were having as much fun as I was.
“It looks like a sad, lonely planet,” said Callie. “Are whoever lives there happy, do you think, or sad?”
I shrugged.
“It is impossible to say,” I said. “I hope they are enjoying life as much as we are though, and if they are as happy as I am, then good for them.”
Callie smiled.
“We have been together for a long time,” she said and then looked at me. “Which is a great thing, of course.” I grinned at her.
Callie gently pulled me closer.
“I wonder if there are creatures like us up there,” I said. “If they have lovely tentacles, like we do, or if they’re strange and weird to look at?”
Callie smiled.
“I hope there are,” she said. “And I hope they have found love, like we have.”
Callie gently wrapped a tentacle around me.
“They’re the third planet from the sun,” she said. “And we’re the fourth, so it must be very hot there. But, love gets everywhere, so I am sure there are creatures there as happy as we are.”
From Earth, Mars shines like a sad little star; but do not forget when you look up at the night sky that, from Mars, Earth shines like a sad lonely star as well.
Robin Lewis-Light lives on Earth in York, and does love to see the stars and planets when they are bright!
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