You used to run track back in high school, now your legs give out going on long walks. How did your mind trick you into thinking you’d never get old? The same way, or in some close proximity to, how sailors used to think whales were beautiful half women. As in, your mind is a powerful trick capable of all kinds of illusions, of conjuring up beauty due to poor eyesight, or never-ending youth due to poor foresight. On the day the asteroid crashed into earth, it was an occasion of all kinds of serendipitous phenomena: you looked up never imagining something so close and so bright and so fast would land right in your lap. And then it was gone.