As the title says, I apologize for the thumb in the lower corner. This picture was actually a lot bigger and in my efforts of trying to crop out my thumb, I realized I might as well have covered the whole camera lens with my thumb. But I got what I wanted in my picture, and its neither my thumb or the building, it’s the sky.
In my short 4 years of high school in Korea I remember looking up and noticing there were no stars in the skies. I was told that this was due to the light of cities and street lights so we couldn’t see the stars, along with a fair share of pollution. I didn’t think much of it but every so often when high school made my life depressing, I’d look up at the even more depressing, starless night skies.
Now in New York City, I see the same thing. Maybe I just miss the days the stars decide its a good night to show up, but I’ve rarely seen stars in the night sky. I wonder if it’s always like this, I wonder if kids who have never left the city even sees stars. And not a dinky 10 or 20, but a night sky completely full of stars. There are subtle ways that the environmental damage our lifestyles causes affects our lives. And growing up without seeing a night sky full of stars is one of them. Small, but important to me.
