Last summer some time, I was coming down from mushrooms walking home down a road that, when I was a teenager, had been forest. I became really aware of the str

Last summer some time, I was coming down from mushrooms walking home down a road that, when I was a teenager, had been forest. I became really aware of the streetlights trying to look at the stars going down the road. You used to be able to see so many stars from that road before street lights or houses were put in. So many stars it was hard to see the space between them. When I got home, I ended up lying on the grass for a bit in the dark to try and look at some stars the street lights ended a couple of blocks away, so the yard's still relatively dark at night. Then when I looked up and tried to watch the stars...all I saw were satellites zipping around everywhere. When I was a kid, seeing a satellite was a fairly rare phenomenon almost as exciting as seeing a meteor. I honestly found the satellites to be more depressing than the light pollution. There wasn't a section of sky that didn't have a satellite in it. I was still somewhat in that mushroom state of mind, so I got kind of unreasonably sad about it. But it really bothered me. I ended up not wanting to look at the stars and just went to bed.