Space Trilogy Entry #1: Trapped with your foes

     In Out of the Silent Planet Ransom is forced onto a space-ship where he is accompanied by two people whom he trusted least in a situation of the like.  This trip made him feel isolated, scared, and anxious being that everyone on earth he actually liked was an astronomical distance away.  I find that Ransom's experience is one that people often face emotionally, at least I do.  From time to time I feel as if everyone that I know and trust is unavailable be it distance, the business of life, relational woes, etc.  During times in which life feels like journey as it does now, sometimes I feel like Ransom.  On a voyage alongside only people I either don't trust or with people I do trust yet won't allow myself to trust them.  There are times in which I feel like I am in the great unknown like Ransom as well, where uncertainty with a balance of healthy curiosity take over my mind and leave me continually thinking and ranting internally. 
     Ransom and I are both on voyages of our own in this section of the book but luckily for me, there are people around me who are not astronomical distances.  The scary thing is that there are people willing to be trusted by me yet I am too untrusting of myself in order to let them in.  I am thankful that, unlike Ransom, I have a community of kind people to trust and I just need to get out of my own way.

I'm not in space.  Oh boy I am thankful.

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