Homesick
Written by: mithunmukherjee
” Wow! where did you get this one from?”
“Got it off the SETI project.”
“Wo! The one where they are trying to find extraterrestrial intelligence?”
“Yep.”
“Hey! Wait a minute…this looks familiar…isnt this…”
“(sighs) Yeah…It is. But how does that make a difference now?”
“Er…I don’t know…shouldn’t it? I mean…don’t you feel anything anymore?”
“You know what? I don’t know! I mean how would it matter now?”
“I don’t know…It should have…it does to me atleast!”
“Yeah whatever!”, he said, firing up the engines now. “We anyways have a long way to go…next I know, you would be cribbing about this place too! What does the picture do to you anyways?”
He looked deeply into the picture for a while and placed in in front of the dash. As they strapped in and blasted off, he finally said,
“It makes me feel homesick…”
Unique take indeed. We are definitely not alone.
My brother had the honor of meeting Dr. H. Paul Shuch a.k.a Dr. SETI when he visited IIT Powai.
I’d since read and worshiped everything about SETI. So this one hits home.
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Oh wow… at the end of the story I get the title
…yep, we’re not just looking for them. They’re looking for us too