Looking out from a lonely metal tube in space, you are surrounded by countless brilliant stars, each one grand and magificent in its own right. For months, you watch from afar as they sing, play, and dance among themselves, a mere sheet of glass keeping you apart. To reach for the stars, you must first break the glass.

Background info on this piece:

This work was inspired by the prompt, "Breaking cycles of trauma or unhealthy habits". It represents the loneliness of knowing kind, talented, or likeminded individuals (the stars reflected in the window), but being too anxious to take the initiative to speak to them or spend time with them. When this happens, it can spiral from being a one-off occurrence into a pattern of isolation. Ironically, these people might still just be a call or text away, a barrier only practically as insurmountable as the fractured glass in the picture. Conversely, all it takes is one small step (breaking the glass) to begin escaping this vicious cycle and reach out to those around oneself.