There's a tradition of wishing on a falling star, but what does one wish on a comet?

For those future residents on Earth: may their world still be packed with mysteries. May they still grow giddy on the eve of a great adventure. May they become responsible to one another and to the planet. May they keep their taste for the renegade. May they never lose their sense of innocence and wonder. May they live to chase brash and astonishing dreams.

May they return to tell me, if such thing is possible, so that I can know the answers to a thousand scrupulous puzzles, hear of whole civilizations that bloomed and vanished, learn what travel to other solar systems has revealed, and behold the marvels that arose while I was gone.

If that's not possible, then I will have to make do with the playgrounds of mortality, and hope that at the end of my life I can say simply, wholeheartedly, that it was grace enough to be born and live.

Deep Play - Diane Ackerman