WNP  4/9/13

"He entered the terminal without looking back."


The decision to leave was not easy.  The people he would leave behind, family, friends, and one special woman who had touched his life deeply.  It wasn't enough to hold him.  He mulled over his options for weeks. "Do I go, or do I stay?"  This once in a lifetime opportunity would never come again. He searched for answers everywhere, looking to the stars which could not answer, and friends who offered unsolicited words of questionable wisdom. "Man, if you do this, we may never see you again, you'll be an old man, we may be dead," they spoke these words to him often.  If he took their advice, he would forever be tethered to the mundane.  He was chosen along with a group of othe specialists for this exclusive and exciting journey.  For once his life would be filled with excitement and adventure.  It would be years before he would be able to return.  Things would not be the same, the people he loved would not be the same.  Most importantly, he would not be the same.  He walked briskly toward his future, and entered the terminal without looking back.