You
would need to completely open up your minds to reading this one. If you feel
you can’t, please stop right here, scroll to the bottom, hit like and share and
move on. However, if you feel like you have some time (in this lockdown, what
else do we have) or if you feel like you are capable of thinking beyond the
ordinary, read on.
I
am a man of science who thinks everything must have some logic and reason and
don’t give too much into miracles and fate. I do believe in a higher power, but
I’m not the kind to spend hours and lifetimes appeasing statues that are called
God! I believe in faith but perhaps not so much in religion. I do believe,
however, in the fact that we perhaps know much less than we give ourselves
credit for. There are a lot of unexplored and undiscovered truths out there
that continue to be labelled fiction just because we haven’t seen or experienced
it yet. There are certainly things that happen that we don’t understand that
are far too easily categorised into alien activity, miracles, tricks, magic,
imagination, ghosts, paranormal activity and what have you.
Heavy
enough for you yet! It gets better, I promise.
Let’s
start off this passage with the assumption that we’re all living in an
experiment that has gone horribly wrong (or perhaps out of control). This would
have to start way back from before Darwin peed in his diapers! Dinosaurs –
there’s a good place to start. Is it? Let’s push way back. Polar ice caps? The
big bang? This is how limited we are in our knowledge. We just think we know
but do we really? Wait, I’m going off track. Back to the beginning of the
experiment.
Assume
that we started off as single cell organisms (that’s what science would have us
believe). Evolution happened and we grew a pair (pun intended). Multi-cellular
beings with hyphae, antennae, digits, a spine, neurons firing in all
directions, a brain to control it all and the power to kill. Oohhh, maybe we
stole that one from the BFG. Animals, fish, birds, quadrupeds, bipeds, apes,
humans!
Survival!
Let’s
knit that all together now otherwise this could be as long as a book. Assume
that we were all meant to be in balance with half of the good things on one
side and half of the bad on the other. Wait, who decided what is good and bad.
Anyway, let’s just divvy it up and move forward. Food chains – there is a
balance that we can understand. Biggest eats smaller eats smaller eats smallest
who eats energy from plants! (Thank you 5th standard children that
we were forced to teach at home).
Let’s
assume that the person conducting this experiment gets bored every few years
and wants a reset. This person then decides to shake up the game board and see
who survive so we can play more. Perhaps this could explain the constant wipe-outs
every few hundred years. Wait, how would
they get new players? That’s why they made us stupid. They gave us libido so we
provide them with a constant supply of stupid. The need to procreate is the
single biggest fault line in this game! When you have nothing to do, create!
So, that’s what the powers that be must have done as well (we are all created
in HIS image remember).
Did
I lose track again? This is so fascinating! Right, we wipe out half the Earth
and reset. The ice age, the dinosaurs, the tigers, the fish, the turtles, the
pangolins and us humans. We feel that we have no right to die early, but we are
stupid remember. We’re just pawns in this game (we even gave ourselves the
name, pawns...who does that?)
So,
if we assume that we are merely here to maintain a balance and if we really,
really open our minds to it, would we still be surprised? Every few decades,
since humans thought we took over the Earth, we have been systematically culled
and wiped off and yet we insist on creating more and more of ourselves to
deplete already depleting resources. They try to wipe us out with disease and
we insist on finding cures or vaccines. If that doesn’t work, they give us
greed to start wars. That almost worked until the last one but perhaps third
time lucky? Then, we get new diseases and we make new treatments and vaccines
only delaying the inevitable. Then come the natural disasters. We get
earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones with weird names, volcanoes
erupting, fires all over the place, landslides, floods and many more. We just
keep coming up with ways to survive!
We
think we will survive but if the balance has to be maintained, they will get
us. We could beat a disease and walk out of the hospital only to be crashed
into by an ambulance. Ironic! (the singer got it right) Try and defeat a
pandemic by locking down and we get earthquakes breaking our homes and cyclones
dropping trees on us. If we get enough vaccines, we will get reactions and side
effects. If we survive this pandemic, religious wars will get enough of us. If
we are to survive all of this, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about WWIII or
perhaps another drought or famine to wipe out a significant mass of people.
Anyway
you look at it, it’s time we accept that our board game can only handle so many
pieces and the rest are going to fall off. Make the most of your time here,
stop hoarding things that will only get destroyed by natural disasters or
remain unused once we leave the realm. Hug
your loved ones often, kiss your children,
smile at strangers, be kind to animals, empathize with those that are suffering
and sympathize with those that just
don’t get it!!
