Hello? Is Anybody There?

Ein Planet kreist aufgrund der Schwerkraft um die Sonne, und der Mond zieht das Meer an, und so entstehen Ebbe und Flut.' Das wuste ich sehr wohl, aber dann sagte er: Meinst du nicht, dass es auch eine Kraft geben muss, die uns aus dem Meer gezogen und uns Augen zum sehen und einem Kopf zum denken gegeben hat?' Ich wusste nicht, was ich sagen sollte, und deshalb zuckte ich nur mit den schultern. Ich wuesste gern, ob denen, die es nicht glauben, ein wichtiger sinn fehlt,' sagte Mika ganz zum schluss.

Remembering a dream is almost as hard as catching a bird in your hand, but sometimes it's as if the bird comes and sits on your shoulder of its own free will.

Nothing is ordirary. Sometimes people talk about 'an ordinary day'. This annoys me, because no two days are the same, and we have no idea how many more days of life we have left. Perhaps even worse than 'ordinary' hens or 'ordinary' days is talking about an 'ordinary' boy or girl. This is the sort of thing we say when we can't be bothered to get to know people better.

The force of gravity makes your planet orbit the sun, and the force of gravity from the moon pulls at the sea and makes tides rise and fall. Don't you think there must also be a force that dragged you up from the oceans and gave you eyes for seeing and a brain for thinking?' I didn't know what to say. 'I sometimes wonder if people who don't believe this are missing an important sense,' said Mika finally.