Out of Time

Hi, my name is John, I am 36 years old, I have 2 kids, a son, and a daughter, and I have a beautiful, loving, and caring wife. Today is the day, in just a few hours I will be in a spacecraft on my way to space. There are so many things that could happen, some bad, some good. Whenever I think of the bad things that could happen it makes me more jittery than anything in the world. Then again I think of all the cool and amazing things I could see out there, like maybe, just maybe I will find something that no one has found before, or maybe find an undiscovered planet or a new type of star.

I just boarded on the spacecraft and we are launching in 10 minutes. As I boarded I realized that when I was a kid I said that I wanted to be an astronaut, as does every other kid do when they saw a space launch or heard what astronauts do. Though when I was a kid I was naive and there were so many possibilities in life, I never thought I could actually come true.

We are starting countdown, launch in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. and I'm on my way to space, my heart is beating so fast, it feels like it's about to jump out of my body. I can't really tell if I'm excited or terrified, all I know is that there is so much adrenaline in my body right now. Right now we are probably 3 minutes away from reaching the space station and we are going so fast it's like a rollercoaster, except we are going in a straight line and 5,000 times faster.

We just reached the space station, and it's so cool up here, the stars look so much different then when I looked from the earth, I don't even know how to describe how amazing this is. I just know I never want to leave. It's been a few hours since we reached the space station and I am already so tired, and I can't wait to go to bed. Alright, it's finally time to go to bed, it's about 10:00 pm and I am exhausted so I will start writing again tomorrow when I wake up, Good Night.

Morning, I forgot to right for a few days, but I have been up here for about 4 days now we have had a few technical difficulties. It is currently 9:00 am and we are about to get to work. I just finished some stuff, now I'm on my way to go eat some lunch. for lunch, I'm having some fruit and an ice cream bar, not the best but it's fine.

It's currently 3:00 pm and we are having major problems, the power went out and the oxygen levels are going down, you may think it's weird how the oxygen levels are going down when only the power went off. You see the space station relies on power so even if it was just the power that went off, everything else goes off. we are trying our best to get everything fixed so we can make it out of here alive.

There is no oxygen left in the space station, so the crew member and I are all in space suits, they won't last us forever, but it's enough for now. We have about 9 hours in these suits, so while we have oxygen in these we are going to try and get the station working again. I don't even know if well survive, all we can do is pray to God that he will help us during this time and that He can protect us, and keep us safe.

It's been 2 hours now, we have had some success with getting the station started up again, we are still trying to get oxygen back in the tanks to fill up the station. We have 7 hours left of oxygen left for our suits, we are trying to use our time wisely and work fast. I'll write again in 3 hours.

Hello, it is currently 9:00 pm we are exhausted but we have to figure out what is going on. we have 4 hours of oxygen left I don't know if we are going to it out alive, I have an idea but I don't know if the others would go along with it. Even if my plan took place and worked, how long would that take? would we use up all of our oxygen? There are so many possibilities. What if we don't make it, what if we die just sitting around trying to think of what to do, and trying not to think of the fact that we could possibly die in a few hours. We have families and kids. I want to be able to see mine grow up, get married. if I'm dead how is that going to work? I need to do something, even if it causes me to lose my life.

2 hours later we started to work together, we have come close to starting the space station up. we have 2 hours left of oxygen in our tanks. right now we are working on getting to oxygen levels in the station regulized. as soon as that's done, or if we finish, we are going to celebrate like no one has before. Of course, that is if we get it fixed. I will write again when I have good news.

PRAISE THE LORD!!! We got the station up and running again and there is oxygen in the station, I have never been more happy and thankful in my life, and it's all because of God and the teamwork we used to get the station working again. You know what, there is a lesson that came out of this whole experience.

Time is precious, don't spend it worrying about all the negative things in life. Honestly, when the problem started I thought I was going to die, that was the only thought in my head. It was so loud, it out-screamed everyone yelling. I could barely think, it was so loud. Then I calmed myself down, then everyone else, I said "We are not dying, I am not going to let us die, we need to come up with a plan." then we all got the suits on and started coming up with a plan. We eventually got started, we worked and worked and worked. Finally, we finished.

Therefore time is there for a reason, and if you take advantage of it, it will take advantage of you, so use it wisely. Even if that means you have to try harder at something, harder than you ever had to try on something before. But in all just be careful with time, because you'll never know how much of it you have waisted until it's all gone.