after the weather breaks/ part 2

after the weather breaks

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

After the weather breaks, after the cold subsides, after the wind stops suddenly in the dark we feel for everyone who came this way before us. Through their tears we see the brief tenure that life is and we feel their regrets for what came and went too quickly for them and everyone we have ever known, heard of, read about, dreamed about or imagined. With a smile we hope those who came before us  were happy more than sad and they kept busy with significant things that made their days seem important to them.

Thirty mile an hour winds that drives sub zero temperatures across the face of the earth howl and shudder then suddenly the howling winds stop. Meanwhile the Earth we stand on hurls through space at 87,000 miles per hour day in and day out for all the weeks and months of our lives regardless of local weather disruptions. No sound that the Earth makes dashing through space following the Sun around the Milky Way Galaxy do we hear. Over ten billion years the Sun retraces it's path round and round the moving Milky way galaxy. Every human who fretted over the briefness of time is a blink to the dashing Sun and it's entourage of planets endlessly searching across perimeters of the galaxy.

A baby cries and then twenty years have passed. Through our tears we feel for the babies lost innocence as we adapt to being happy that a baby has acquired the skills and toughness to survive an indifferent environment. Soon we will be gone and that baby comes of age acting it's part on the stage of the Earth as it races across our Galaxy.

Move to California, retire to Florida, triple the value of your portfolio; you still ride on the face of the same planet chasing one local star through nearby space.

Soon when the warm returns we can sit by a fire again, outside and watch outer space approach us each night. May you recollect your life with a smile and we hope you are happy more than sad and you keep busy with significant things that make your measured days seem important to you.