Existing in a Space Opera

If left to my personal preferences, I’d never splash on my money on space operas wherein space is simply the background and the technologies are just a part of the story to make it more exciting.

While we deal with the humdrum of everyday life — dust and dirt, water shortage, stray dogs and cows, delayed trains, sluggish internet connection, pollution, surge pricing, salary raise, unemployment, family matters, failed or complicated relationships, and cranky landlords, regardless of my dissenting opinion, it seems out of this world (pun intended.) to think that beyond the planet there is a universe full of extraordinary ideas and objects, out of bounds of our thinking, perception, and understanding. To make this more relatable: Guardians of the Galaxy seems more phenomenal than our lives, despite the plot being all about surviving in a combative and unfriendly environment.

Nothing in the universe can be estimated as a chocolate teapot. As dramatic they are, Space Operas make us think that only the things propelled out of the gravitational force of the Earth are exceptional and consequently attract more attention. For this reason, we underestimate our lives down here. Owing to the truth that we feel ourselves to be petty pieces in the universe, we consider ourselves to be less vulnerable from all the dangers existing in space. All of this might not make sense to many. However, the fact that Earth itself is in space makes it a part of the space opera.

Besides the usual space warfare, melodramatic adventures, interplanetary battles, and chivalric romances, space operas are about the true colors of human life — falling in love, getting married, raising children, finding stability, facing death, and so on. Thanks to our perception, we never realize the parallelism between the Space Opera and human existence. In vintage space operas, everybody predicted computers and devices similar to
Smartphones, for tasks related to space and numbers. Back then, nobody in their wildest dreams could have thought of such inventions and their easy accessibility. This, again, implies we live in quite a science fictional world now, which was unforeseen.

A handful of responses to hundreds of attempts for finding life on other planets and galaxies have given us a glimmer of hope that we’re not alone in the universe, which itself is thrilling. Presuming this coexistence,
they might be superior to us in power. And, quite possibly — the little green men may make our lives endangered !!!

Human survival in the universe is more like an adventure. The fantasy world we enjoy in movies via VFX and SFX is very well in front of us. The presence of flora and fauna, along with the magical world of animals, humans, birds, fishes, and whatnot is far more remarkably beautiful.

Humanity needs to survive, and howsoever unique our struggles are, we are together in the struggle called Human life — a Space Opera.