Neptune ♆ Han asked me what my favourite planet was. Surprisingly, I’ve never given it much thought before. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Neptune was the most appealing to me. The planet, so aptly-named after the Roman god of the sea, symbolizes some kind of beautiful metaphor to me. You cannot see Neptune without a powerful telescope. Even with one, spotting it requires a keen eye. From this distance, it only appears faintly. Its pale blue light glows serenely in the sky. The seemingly gentle giant only just completed its first orbit around the sun since it was discovered. We’ve learned a lot about Neptune since then. There are storms all over it. Violent, dark, ephemeral storms. Storms that are so brutally powerful, we couldn’t possibly comprehend the force of them. And that is the root of my appreciation for this metaphor. Neptune, with all it’s great beauty, has its own storms inside of it, just like us.

Neptune ♆

Han asked me what my favourite planet was. Surprisingly, I’ve never given it much thought before. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Neptune was the most appealing to me. The planet, so aptly-named after the Roman god of the sea, symbolizes some kind of beautiful metaphor to me.

You cannot see Neptune without a powerful telescope. Even with one, spotting it requires a keen eye. From this distance, it only appears faintly. Its pale blue light glows serenely in the sky. The seemingly gentle giant only just completed its first orbit around the sun since it was discovered.

We’ve learned a lot about Neptune since then. There are storms all over it. Violent, dark, ephemeral storms. Storms that are so brutally powerful, we couldn’t possibly comprehend the force of them.

And that is the root of my appreciation for this metaphor. Neptune, with all it’s great beauty, has its own storms inside of it, just like us.