The Out of this World 🌎 Meeting!

I was unable to sleep. I was very excited as the results for my exam were to be announced the next day. I looked out of the window into the night where the only lights were the twinkling stars. The darkness seemed very strange to me. Living in the city, I always have been used to a have the brownish-orange glow of the street lamp reflecting at the window.

I quietly tiptoed outside my room into the hall and took a step outside into the dark night. I sat down and looked up at the stars in strange patterns called constellations.  I find the constellation of Pegasus, the winged unicorn as I feel my eyelids getting heavy.

I feel myself lifted into the air and flying up – higher and higher. I open my eyes to notice I am galloping on Pegasus with Cancer, the constellation of a crab beside me. I had been pulled up from the planet Earth and brought outside it. It felt strange to look at my planet sitting on twinkling Pegasus. 

We stop and Pegasus and Cancer turn towards me. ” We are the representatives of the Solar System. We have been elected to talk about the problems facing the Solar System”, Cancer and Pegasus say. “Then why I am I here?” I asked. “You have been selected to represent the Earth,” Cancer replied. “I cannot even make a change in my classroom then how will I make a change outside Earth,” I questioned.  

“In today’s council meeting we are going to talk about the problems in planets of the Solar System. We are especially going to discuss about Earth,” explains Pegasus. After discussing other planets’ problems, they move onto discussing Earth.

“Earth was the most beautiful dressed in green and blue, my favourite colours”, told Pegasus and Cancer. “But recently we started noticing that Earth has asthma,” they explained seriously. “Earth with Asthma! That is weird!” I thought aloud.  “Now she is starting to look a suffocating black,” they explain sadly.

“Oh!  That is awful”, I cry. “She is covered with the things humans call poll-lu-tion”, says Cancer. 

“Look at the proud Mars. He was once a dry and sandy red land. Now humans want to make it their home. You have to do something,” cried Pegasus. 

“BEEP!  Next please!”  I was still lost in my previous night’s dream even while standing at a queue in the counter of a supermarket. The cashier loads my purchase into a fresh plastic bag.

Pegasus’s words are loud in my ears as I feel the Earth suffocating in plastic.

“No!,” I shout. 

I will do my bit by saying no to plastic and save the Earth from asthma.  If only everyone could refuse plastic, use reusable bags and help Earth. Earth is our own home and we must take care of it.

As I move out of the counter carrying my purchase, I look down at my shoes that are still sparkling with star dust!