00:00 — I'm born! Crystallized around a speck of dust in the clouds. Everything is white and cold and I can't stop shaking. There are millions of us here. We're so heavy. The sky is groaning.
A descent in real time
00:00 — I'm born! Crystallized around a speck of dust in the clouds. Everything is white and cold and I can't stop shaking. There are millions of us here. We're so heavy. The sky is groaning.
00:15 — FALLING. I'm falling and I CAN'T STOP. The wind is screaming past. My neighbors are crashing into me. We're plummeting through the gray. My whole existence is this descent now. Nothing else matters.
00:28 — Glimpses of earth below. A city. A forest. A river glinting like silver. I'm getting faster or maybe everything is just RUSHING UP. The air is warming. I'm losing myself. Who was I before this?
00:35 — IMPACT. I hit something hard and wet—maybe a leaf, maybe pavement. For one infinite instant I exist as myself. Then I scatter, merge, disappear into the ground where everything else has gone. The journey is over. I am home.