[ WP ] As predicted , the Sun has just instantaneously imploded . Although no one has seen it happen yet because sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun . Therefore , this may be the last 8 minutes of sunlight that you , or anyone else on Earth , will ever see .

It was n't fair. Not for me, I didn ’ t care. But for my son. 
 
 My wife had died several years ago and being a single parent was never really easy, but we managed. We got through when losing two jobs, moving across the country, and an emergency surgery. But at the end of it all, I was always able to make it out because I had my son ’ s support and he had mine. We were an amazing team that stuck together and we made it through it all. 
 
 And for an 8 year-old kid, boy was he talented. Reading up on hyperflex drives by the time he was 6, designing his first rocket and actually launching it by the time he was 7, and now by the time he was 8, facing the extinction of the Sun. 
 
 We didn ’ t know why at least no one was telling us why. We were just told, brace yourself, you have 13 hours and 8 minutes until….this planet would become a tombstone. It ’ s funny how it took millions of years for life to develop on this blasted piece of space rock, but in less than a day, all the history, all the war, every memory would be wiped out. 
 
 Maybe if this happened in several hundred thousand millennia, we would have figured it out. But five hundred years after landing a man on the moon, we had barely progressed to escaping out of the solar system. 
 
 But I didn ’ t care…I didn ’ t care about me. I had lived a good life, but what about my son. What about the other billions of kids on this planet who barely got a taste of life and will flicker out like a candle that was just lit. I knew one day or another, everyone would end up paying for something. I ’ d just rather be willing to give my son five more minutes for the sake of my own. 
 
 “ Dad? ” a voice interrupted my thoughts. 
 “ Yeah Morgan? ” I replied with a heavy heart. 
 “ Don ’ t you think it sucks we ’ re gon na die before the movie comes out next week? ” he asked holding my hand. 
 “ Yeah, it does, I ’ m sorry you didn ’ t even get a chance to live a full life, ” I said resting my hands on his shoulders as we watched the sky. 
 “ Well, at least we ’ ll be able to see mom again, ” he smiled. 
 
 “ Valid point Morgan. I think it ’ s kind of funny how you ’ re taking this. ” 
 “ Well, I saw mom die when I was five, and well, I know everyone dies someday. At least I get to die with you here with me. I know Grandma died alone and Grandpa died in his sleep. At least I know that if I ’ m gon na die, I ’ m gon na die with my dad. ” 
 
 “ You ’ re a smart kid Morgan, maybe you didn ’ t get a chance to change the whole world, but at least you have been able to change mine. ” 
 “ In a good way? ” he gently asked. 
 “ In a good way, ” I smiled. 
 
 I looked at my watch as it started to beep, I had 8 minutes left with my son. 
 “ Morgan? ” I asked. 
 “ Yeah dad? ” 
 “ Remember when I told you the difference time makes? ” 
 “ Yeah it was based off that one thing about what a year meant and a week and whatever. But you made your own version…a year is, ” 
 “ How long mom was in the hospital ” I replied with the clock striking seven 
 “ A month is….uh how long you tried to ask out mom ” 
 “ Right, ” I chuckled with six minutes. 
 “ A week is….uh, how long it took us to move! ” he replied excitedly. 
 “ Correct, ” five minutes 
 “ A day is how long we lived in our car when we moved here ” 
 I nodded with four minutes. 
 “ An hour is how late… ” 
 “ Grandpa was to getting to Grandma before it was too late, ” I said 
 3 minutes 
 “ A minute ” he replied, “ how late you were to getting to that job interview ” 
 2 minutes. 
 “ And a second is…uh….60 of them in a minute! ” He said running out of ideas. ” 
 1 minute. 
 
 I smiled as I asked, “ And do you know what a lifetime is Morgan? ” 
 “ What dad? ” 
 A tear rolled down my face, “ 8 minutes with my son. ” 

