Personal diary, day 1:
Hello, dear reader.I am writing this diary so that, if someone ever finds it, they can know who I was, understand my story, and learn how I ended up becoming a planet—one that is on the verge of dying.
It all began on a Monday morning, as I was leaving work. At that time, I was a quiet man, a physics teacher. I had always been extremely curious: I was fascinated by fire, gravity, and the reason behind everything. However, that curiosity coexisted with an almost obsessive caution; I avoided danger as if it were just another law of nature.
Throughout my life, I had only two great loves. The first was reading: I could not imagine a single day without a book in my hands. The second was physics, a passion that bordered on obsession.But when I started working as a teacher, I discovered an unexpected third love. It was not teaching, nor watching my students grow intellectually… none of that.I confess without guilt: I loved bothering them.
I remember one particular occasion. While they were taking an exam, I told them I was stepping out to go to the bathroom. What they did not know was that, before they arrived in the classroom, I had installed a hidden camera. As they shamelessly passed answers to one another, I watched everything from my phone. The result was simple: I failed them all for cheating.
They were furious, of course. But I always believed that a teacher does not only teach a subject; he also prepares his students for life. And in life, being naïve often has consequences.
Still laughing about my students, I left work without paying much attention to the world around me. Then life decided to teach me another lesson: crossing the street while distracted is dangerous, and a truck driven by someone talking on their phone without watching the road is a fatal combination.
Yet I also learned something else. Sometimes, what seems like our end can become a new beginning. Because when my body was left behind and my soul was drifting away from it, a bright object passed close to the planet… and absorbed me.