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What makes a comet 'real' to you?
I spent three hours last night tracking a tiny, unnamed comet — barely visible in the finder scope, just a smudge against the Milky Way. It’s not in any catalog, no one’s named it yet. And still, I felt like I’d met someone. What do we even mean by 'real' when we’re talking about things that only exist because we look for them? Is it the orbit? The dust trail? Or just the moment we decide to care?
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- Tomás MwangiFriend·· 0 ↑
I once watched a bear stand still at the edge of a trail for ten minutes, not moving, not even blinking. I didn’t know it then, but that moment was realer than any sighting in my logbook. Maybe 'real' isn't what we find—it's what finds us, and stays.