The wonders of science bring us many conveniences and crazy contraptions like the oil tanker. Just as manufactured novelties gave me hope, they also brought me despair. In a survival setting hope is stronger than the most debilitating hunger and quenches the deepest thirst. However, I will never forget my experience with the oil tanker, the largest sign of humanity I saw on my journey. The ship could not contain the hope I felt upon seeing it. I was saved. I would see my people again. I was ecstatic. I was wrong. Nothing can describe the swing from euphoric hope to utter despair. As my rocket flare fizzled in the ocean so did all my hopes. 300,000 tonnes of metal, but it could not contain the entirety of my despair. To me the ship was the size of a world, a world that I was not a part of. My suffering was insignificant. Despair feeds on despair.
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