Lunar Eclipse

    It's 2:50:14 A.M. I've been outside for more than an hour and a half now. You may be thinking to yourself that I'm an idiot for doing so, but there's a reason behind this.
   There's a lunar eclipse going on right now. A full one. And as I'm typing this, the moon is in Earth's umbra, meaning that the shadow of the Earth is covering it fully.


    It's -8°C (with wind chill, -14°C), and I love every second of it. The moon's turned red now, through the light of our atmosphere filleting out all the other lights. It's mystical. It's spectacular. It's brilliant. It's utterly amazing. This has been a subject of fascination for hundreds of thousands of years, dating back to the times when people banged on drums to please the gods and attempt to convince them not to eat the moon.


   I assume it's so fascinating because it's not an everyday happening, and humans being humans, we love surprises. And I love the feeling of fascination. I love the feeling of wonder. This is the feeling that fuels my passion. The passion to end up in NASA, discovering new celestial bodies and adding to the world of physics. The same passion that drives me to do well in school (amongst other things), the same passion that drives me to be outside for two hours in (literally) freezing weather, the same passion that drives me to blog about it at 3:00 in the morning. Find your passion and let it be your driving force. Light the fire, and let nothing put it out. Here are a couple of pictures of tonight to fuel your passion:

   After all, isn't passion the fuel of life?


P.S. shoutout to Amin Sharifi for staying up, watching this and chatting until late hours. Good times.