Miguel Castillo - Independent Writing 1-31-17

I have so many questions about the future. Not specifically my future. But the future of humanity. Can we survive for thousands of years as a species?  Or become extinct in less than 100 years because of nuclear warfare? Because of powerful governments fighting over who's the best. I know my life wont last 100 years and I could die at 99 years old, or I could die in a year or two. Life can be different if we just understood everyone's opinion and not correct or judge them for thinking differently, even if their thinking is wrong. Life can be beautiful if we can drop the guns in Chicago, and tell the world to stop dropping their bombs in the middle east. Instead of expanding military power, all nations should come together and expand ideas of how to save our only home from collapsing and prevent ourselves from destroying life itself. I want to live to find out that the end is nowhere near and we still have time to send people to nearby planets and colonize them. To turn planets like Mars into a world where it can support life just like ours. To know that traveling between planets is like traveling between countries on a plane. I want to live to know that we are capable of traveling out into space and explore galaxies and universes. I want my great grand children to carry my name for hundreds of years. If we all become extinct, there will be nothing left to remember our names or how we lived or who we were. The only things we'll leave behind is our bones and weapons.