Hey, I Think I See Me
Matter as we know it consists of atoms – arranged in certain
ways so that they make up forms – rocks, rivers, stars, puppies, humans, and
everything in between. I don’t really
see life as having a beginning and end, I only see the rearranging of
matter. Example: Your pet hamster dies, you bury it in the
back yard, and sometime over the next few years, the atoms that formed that
little piece of life will be used for something else – a flower to bloom, a
worm to have lunch, or a raindrop to form.
For me, “Life” is just a label that we put on our time in the current
state of existence. I guess all animate
life has an ego, it wants to perpetuate its genes, reproduce, and some go so far
as to desire eternal life in its immediate form. I don’t know that a pebble wants to live
forever, being that I cannot communicate with it, or see its body language or
mannerisms, but my guess is that on some level, as with all matter, it wants to
continue in its current state, it wants to continue being a pebble. Other life forms are more obvious – a tree
puts out spores or seeds, a dinosaur finds a mate and hatches little dinosaurs (well,
they did until their life form ceased to exist for whatever reason) and humans and
cockroaches make babies faster than we can count. I believe that all life forms – both animate
and inanimate - meaning everything that is made up of atoms – has the desire to
live - or continue in its current state of being. The human, having the spec of intelligence
and ability to reason that it does, has an overinflated ego as one of its
peripheral properties – causing it to want to live on forever, to produce as many
offspring as possible, and to continue to dominate and pathologically control the
world it lives in. Some of us are
constantly looking for other worlds, other planets that might be able to sustain
human life, or possibly be manipulated into doing so. Some of the places are geographically light
years away. I believe that the
rearranging of atoms is a natural cycle that will happen, no matter what any
life form wishes – no matter how much we fight it, try to prevent it, or try to
deny it. There will come a time when
there will no longer be a human race, cockroaches, Earth, sun, or even our
mighty galaxy. I believe that this cycle
is somehow built in at the atomic, or even the sub atomic level – as is
gravity, magnetism, and other phenomenon that we may or may not understand.
Ok, now here’s something I’ve not heard in any
documentaries, or printed media, that I need to talk about. If nothing external comes along and makes the
earth uninhabitable by humans, then our gene pool will eventually deteriorate,
and we will be gone. The “Gene pool will
deteriorate?”, you ask. Well, yes, this
is common knowledge and is proven by every instance of incest that occurs in
the world as we know it. There are
certain areas of our planet that were and/or have been isolated for so many
years that the local population either disappeared or was severely
damaged. At some point we will all be
marrying our cousins, brothers, and sisters, it’s inevitable. It is, of course, possible that before that
time comes, the planet will be rendered uninhabitable by life as we know it –
by some external force – a giant asteroid, a freak explosion on the sun, or
even the human race having polluted the planet to the point where life can no
longer exist, or, the earth raging against and destroying the virus known as
the human race.
It’s also possible that a new, more intelligent life form may appear. If so, being that it is not possible for a human to mate with an ape and reproduce, it stands to reason that if there are any humans still in existence if or when a new life form appears, that it will not be possible for us to mate with that life form either – in fact, we probably won’t even be able to communicate with it – that’s again of course, if any humans even still exist.
What is this stuff about the universe constantly expanding? There’s also the theory that the galaxies are closing in on each other? So, which is it, and how can anyone know these things? I guess they don’t, they are nothing more than unproven theories. I don’t know that there is an end to the universe – either timewise or spacewise. We’re too puny to know such a thing, or to even venture a guess. This brings me back to the human ego, which again, causes many of us want to live forever, some to pass on their genes in hopes that their family line can be perpetuated till infinity, and to have the need to control anybody and anything in its line of sight. Many of us think that we should defy nature, alter our genes, invade other worlds, carry on in our current state till the end of time (that’s of course, a figure of speech). Lucky for the universe that it has the built in atomic map, where the elements feel the need to spread out and do other things – build other worlds, become other forms of life. Maybe they do the same as we do – they simply get bored after a few million years or so, and need to move on. Whatever the case, nothing stays as it is indefinitely, there will come a time when human, earth, and sun will disintegrate, and its building blocks will be blasted into deep space. It will land somewhere, congregate somewhere, and new worlds and life forms will be created.
It’s also possible that a new, more intelligent life form may appear. If so, being that it is not possible for a human to mate with an ape and reproduce, it stands to reason that if there are any humans still in existence if or when a new life form appears, that it will not be possible for us to mate with that life form either – in fact, we probably won’t even be able to communicate with it – that’s again of course, if any humans even still exist.
What is this stuff about the universe constantly expanding? There’s also the theory that the galaxies are closing in on each other? So, which is it, and how can anyone know these things? I guess they don’t, they are nothing more than unproven theories. I don’t know that there is an end to the universe – either timewise or spacewise. We’re too puny to know such a thing, or to even venture a guess. This brings me back to the human ego, which again, causes many of us want to live forever, some to pass on their genes in hopes that their family line can be perpetuated till infinity, and to have the need to control anybody and anything in its line of sight. Many of us think that we should defy nature, alter our genes, invade other worlds, carry on in our current state till the end of time (that’s of course, a figure of speech). Lucky for the universe that it has the built in atomic map, where the elements feel the need to spread out and do other things – build other worlds, become other forms of life. Maybe they do the same as we do – they simply get bored after a few million years or so, and need to move on. Whatever the case, nothing stays as it is indefinitely, there will come a time when human, earth, and sun will disintegrate, and its building blocks will be blasted into deep space. It will land somewhere, congregate somewhere, and new worlds and life forms will be created.
When it’s my time to contribute my little atomic legos to
the universe, so that they may become something else, I will welcome it; I mean
hell, I’m 57, and I’m bored now, I
can’t imagine what I’ll be like when I’m 70 or beyond.
So, folks, if I have any advice to offer, it’s to get
over yourselves. We are just passing
through, we are nothing more than atoms arranged in a particular way to make us
what we are, and at some point in time, the giant atomic transporter will break
us down and rearrange our particles somewhere else. That’s not to say we shouldn’t value our
lives, and make the best of the time that we are here, I’m only saying we need to be reasonable, and not be so
damn selfish.
See y’all on the next plane (of existence).
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