Balloons

I don't like to give a lot of mindspace to the "live life to the fullest" mentality. I just think its trite and usually very self centered. However, I cannot help but feel a little gipped when I think about how 5 year old me really believed that by this point in life I would have already stumbled upon at least one deflated helium balloon that had given up and fallen from the sky over a random location after being let go at a parade or the zoo. Its always been a dream of mine to find one. You just know there has to be millions out there. What happens to them? They can't keep flying up forever. But surely they don't stay in space long enough to disintegrate. Where do they all land? Maybe they just eventually explode from the increase in pressure, but still, what of the ribbon they were attached to? I just find it hard to believe that I haven't found even ONE by now, thats all.

When I was little I used to write notes and put them in balloons and then send them flying up into the air hoping someone would get my note and send me one back. I'm still waiting though.