lately there's quite some articles in blogs about life and death. therefore now i've decided to write something about it. after you finish reading, you might say "it's just a bunch of crap!" or "hmm, thought provoking" or "hey...." but well, life goes on. and you gotta decide.
now, i'm asking you, who are you?
you might answer "i am [insert name here]".
*teet* that wasn't what i was expecting. you're assuming i'm a human. now i ask u again, who are you?
yes, you're just a human. homo sapien, that's the scientific name scientists give, but nevertheless, you're one of billions of species that exists or might have existed or will have existed since the birth of this universe.
you talk about death. well, that's understandable, as everybody will give that a thought, no matter how ignorant they are. why? because like the famous quote says "there are two things in life you can never escape, death and taxes". everybody gives a thought to death, and nearly everything revolves around this topic. if you have been reading my articles, or my comments to other people's articles, you might have come across this unparalleled thought that i have - "we are just a speck of dust." now you may ask, why the hell did i say that? doesn't life mean anything to me? do i think that we are merely a speck of dust, therefore we are expendable?
but you can't deny how true that statement is. we are nothing but just a speck of dust. a lot of people hate to acknowledge that, because they want to know that at least they mean something to this world, that they are brought to this world for at least something. but tell you what, you never know. i never know. a lot of religious doctrines tell you what life is, et cetera et cetera, but you can really believe them? are they really true? can you truly believe them without questioning? you can't deny that those text are passed down generations through generations, and practitioners hold it that they're the whole truth, nothing but the whole truth. but, are they really the truth?
now, who are you? you're a human, one of the species out of maybe gazillions of living beings in this universe. how long do you live? probably 80 years, probably up to 100 years. wow, quite a long time. but aren't we missing something out here? 80 years might be long if you look at it from the "human" point of view. try to look from the universe perspective, compare your lifespan with the lifespan of planets. don't you think your lifespan is awfully short compared to the planets? now, take sperms for example. their lifespan is probably like, what, a week or so? that's awfully short compared to human life of 80 to 100 years, isn't it? but undeniably, sperms are actually living cells, and when they die, isn't that a passing of life? please don't tell me that humans are different from sperms just because humans have intelligence or humans are multi-cell or something like that. intelligence is relative. multi-cell is relative. planets are living beings too, in my view. you may say it's just a rock, but to me planets are living beings. so if sperms are nothing compared to humans and therefore sperms are expandable, wouldn't that mean, we humans are nothing compared to planets, therefore we are expandable too?
when everybody talks about death, about how many deaths there are in this world, they forget that even more die everyday in the forms of other multi-cell forms. countless of sperms die everyday. countless of bacterias die everyday. countless of animals die everyday. don't they count as living beings? so why do we bother so much about death? i myself don't know. i find myself bothered about death too.
if you say that the sperms that die worth nothing, and of all the millions that's produced, are the story of the survival of the fittest, solely to find the "one" sperm that swims the fastest, that's the most capable that would be able to penetrate the ovum and later develops into a human being, try to apply that to us, human beings. there is awfully lot of us, and a lot die everyday. are we born for the same story, the survival of the fittest, to find among us the "one" human that can somehow, fulfill some kind of "higher destiny or objective"? if that is so, wouldn't the rest of us be just a speck of dust like the rest of the dead sperms, sacrificed along the way to find the "one" greatest?
since nature are likely to behave similarly, i.e. moon revolves around planet like how planets revolve around the sun like how, minisculely, electrons revolve around atoms. can you say for sure that the survival of the fittest for sperms cannot be applied to us humans, or for that matter, to us the living beings of this mysterious universe?
p.s. this is just a passing thought that i had on my KTM journey back to office. it's not directed to anybody, nor to any articles at all. it's solely my opinion, and a passing thought. i just can't resist sharing it out :p (oh yes, i'm weird. like i care, lol)
