I woke up so early just to make it on time. Still with the time allowance and two pending items to settle resulted to seventeen minutes past my first appointment. It had a domino effect on everything thereafter. When already at her gate and calling her that I arrived, she was actually waiting for me at the parking lot just so it won’t add to my tardiness. Despite that and the long list we had to go through before finally getting to our depot, she ended up missing her breakfast from a chain offering a promotional game for customers. But we made it to our final destination.

Strangely enough we were twenty minutes early. Still it was not worth the promptness since we cannot disembark. It was not one of those moments that you are thankful for being an early bird.

Anyway, for tonight, nothing planned. Only dinner and a good night’s rest.

Tomorrow’s the big day…..(,”)

Her discovery was not accidental. It was much more of unexpected since fossil collectors were already in the area. They are in the dig site collecting fossils commercially. It just took another careful eye of Sue Hendrickson, a fossil hunter, to have her remains noticed. It was suposed to be a day off from sweltering heat and dust at the site since most of her companion went to town to fix their vehicle. She stayed and made use of the time hunting for fossils.

The find was huge, it was a bone of a dinosaur. Although they did not know the sex of the reptile, they named it “SUE” after the fossil hunter who discovered it.

(Lesson: Keep on doing what you know you are good at. In unexpected circumstances, your moment will come. It only takes an extra effort.)

It all began when her life ended. But nobody knew how it happened. For now, it doesn’t matter. What’s more astounding was the fact that she was preserved and unearthed because she has recreated life not only hers but many of those before her.

Sixty-five millions years ago, her herd and all those living in these times spent the last days of their existence. She may have passed away long before this happened. But she was the piece of the puzzle for her species and maybe for everything that existed during that time.

It was her time. She was already at the dawn of her life when catastrophically or naturally she lay rested in that riverbed. She may not have that death worthy of recognition that significantly defined an era, but it might be the reason that nature preserved her well.

She had her life…and more after that. Who would have thought that after their dominion another life form was emerging and walking on the same soil as they had, responding to the same compulsion of existence and survival.

And to this day, that life form evolved and became the generation that unearthed her.

Her life and mine spanning 65 million years apart is only a spec in the evolution of time. The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Before her time and after, a lot of things has transpired.

What is more to come after our lifetime?

Waiting for me?

Longing to meet me?

I’d be lucky but I guess not.

She doesn’t know me. That doesn’t matter because I am nothing to her.

Her life has been a great accomplishment not only to me but to many as well who recognize her. Although she might not be aware of that.

Her whole existence was only a natural response to the compulsion of existence and survival. Survival… that’s harsh…I bet she doesn’t want to call it that way. Because there was no other way. Was there?

But her mark was made and it was grand.

Especially the story that she carries with her.

Am I worthy to see her? We all are not.

But we are all obligated to earn that and see where time brings us to.

Am I ready?

It’s been a month of anticipation and soon I will be able to see the beginning of time. What was life back then?

Although I might not be able to figure it out. She will definitely have a story for me.

She is waiting for me. Longing to talk to me and leave me an awe.

Why she? Will she be able to help me? I guess no.

But I guess she will be able to inspire me and look at the world in a different way. Can’t others have that same effect on me?

Definitely not. There’s only one she and she is there waiting for me.