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Personal Narrative: Spore

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I have been interested in celestial objects for all my life. It was like love at first sight. People had their favorite movie 's posters on their walls when I had solar system and our place in universe. This curiosity guided me to buy books about astronomy and make researches about it. Even though I knew most of their properties there was something missing; a telescope to observe them. One day while I was watching a documentary about astronomy they showed a photo of a Galilean telescope that was divided into two. It was looking simple and manufacturable. So I build one for myself. It wasn 't the best but it was enough for me then. And it only made me more curios. When I was 9 I found a game called Spore. The game starts as you being a

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