To Mars, with love

Dear Mars,

You don’t know me but I know you. For now, just know that my name is “Sunny Sarraf” and I like you a lot. I like you more than any planet that I have ever heard of and I also like you more than some of the people that I know. People disappoint me but I know that you can’t do that to me.

Earth is such a beautiful place but we humans have made it so tough to live. We have polluted it, played with it, treated it badly, and always taken advantage of it. There are many people who want to save the Earth but the good people largely are outnumbered by bad people and since good people die sooner than bad people there is very little hope left. This takes me back to you. Do you know that in our solar system, apart from Earth, you are the only other planet that we can colonize (though with immense difficulties)? You probably do not know since you are not living like us but I had to tell you just in case. People like Elon Musk want to colonize you or at least try to. There are preparations being made that will send the first humans to you (Mars) but that is at least two decades away.

The reason I wanted to write to you is that I don’t like the people here and I would rather live alone on you than spend time here. I myself am not the best or the most helpful person but I have seen worse people than me. There are lots of reasons why I want to leave and it will take a lot of time to explain and I don’t want to rant about my personal problems here. Just know that I would love to come and stay on you, with you. I know you are harsh and living on you will be a big challenge for even the mightiest of humans but I just want to get stranded on you, alone, 225 million kilometers away from this Earth. I know I will never be selected to travel to you, let alone selected to go as the only human from here, I still it would make you feel happy that someone wants to live on you. I hope I get to live on you more often in my dreams and I think that would suffice.

Never forget that I think about you and like you a lot. You look red and are called “the red planet” but your land seems green to me, full of nothing and no one.

With love,

Sunny.

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