The universe extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, he is resuming his nomadic way of life. To search and explore the many paths laid out before him, unified by the potential to lead him to a higher purpose, by their regard for their his ambitions, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may come from following each of them, he is the catalyst in all of them. As he travels, he will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. He will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all his hope once was, how perilous his infancy, how humble his beginnings, how many rivers he had to cross before he found his way.
