In the end, Eden* managed to surprise me more than I'd imagined it would. I now feel a little stupid for being overly critical of it in the first hours of the story, and that's because it's the calmest life and death drama.

The world is ending, and people are leaving it and heading to space, but that's okay, because through what seems to look like the end of a planet, hope can be seen, and life on a new planet might just be born all because of the desire for survival.

Eden really managed to make the end of the world look hopeful, it made death feel serene. That ominous red star in the sky, that omen of death? It looks quite beautiful if you look at it a little closer. Take away everything bad from it and you'd be quite happy to see it in the sky, it's quite unique.

How can a sinful soldier, one who forgot everything in order to never look back at his wrongdoings, be saved? How can a caged bird experience the beauty this planet has to offer knowing it will all end soon? This series of events, tranquil and soothing, accompanied by charming characters, lovely music, and art, managed to dulcify all feelings of sadness, of uncertainty.

I was not expecting to be this moved by this short story, but I'm glad I was. As a person that tends to look in the past more than I'd like to, and feeling bad about it, the themes covered in Eden* made me understand myself a little more. It's okay to look in the past. You might see something beautiful there, maybe it's a memory you would forget otherwise, you might remember a person you've not seen in ages, so what's bad with looking in the past every now and then?

People might forget stories after two or three years, but maybe if reading this has changed my perspective, even only a little, then it was time well spent.