Afterthought

[ˈɑːftəˌθɔːt] 
n. a comment, reply, etc., that occurs to one after the opportunity to deliver it has passed.

Is this it?

Seems like it's almost over.

Then that's that.

What else could there be?

Something better? Something more meaningful?

Please! This is what THEY brought it to...

But I thought it was just getting better ... more interesting

It wasn't meant to be so ... probably just a miscalculation...

Please... jus...

It's done! This is the end.

I miss them already.


Don't worry ... they will somehow rise again. They will crawl, then walk, then run and then fall again. As it has always been ... so will it always.


 

Enough?

Walking on the mosaic floor I saw an ant. A tiny red ant, a lone ant that I was about to kill with my feet. I was wearing a heavy shoe that would've killed the ant instantly. I dodged and saved him, I stopped, squatted down near him and took a moment to look at him. He seemed not to care about the sudden turn of his luck. He seemed to care in the least that I was around and went about his routine quasi random path, looking for God knows what. He was meant to die, but another conscious being, out of sheer chance and curiosity, saved him. He was running away so I blocked his path with my hand, he collided, felt the obstruction and just turned away towards another direction. That was a bummer, I thought. He wasn't scared, he didn't care and walked away. How many ever time I tried he just turned away. He didnt even realize that he had been running around in a tiny little region. If anything he seemed to be more in a hurry. That's the least he could've expressed at the little meaningless game I was playing with him. But then I began to ponder and let my mind wander in a path just like the ant was following.

The ant doesn't have the capacity to comprehend, or to appreciate its surroundings. He cant realize that there exist beings like humans, thousands of times bigger than them and billions of times smarter than them. He doesn't grasp the fact that he is in the bottom of the food chain, while a being watching it, is right at the top. He just goes about doing what the infinitesimal neuron circuit in its head makes him do. We ever need to build a road and an ant hill is in the way, people dont even give a second thought and raze it to the ground, sans emotion, sans pity for the co-inhabitors of Earth.

On the other hand, we do have the faculties to comprehend the vastness of our universe. We are a being on a tiny planet going around a tiny star, along with a few other rocks. The sun is almost at the edge of a spiral galaxy, Milky way, filled with billions of stars. And this milky way is just another galaxy among billions others separated by unthinkable distances. When we look at the sky, we know we are looking at the past, because the light from the stars we see were sent by the star millions of years ago. How do we know this? Because we have to ability to know this. Compared to the vastness of the Universe, the ant and I are the same.

Imagine, we know about the Universe just by sitting in our lonely planet. So how much do we really know about it, when there's so much more left to know about our own planet? Our brain is probably a billion times more complex that the ant's, but is it enough brain to comprehend what the Universe has to offer in its fullest of might and glory? Or are we just ants to the Universe, without meaning or care, that can be ended with a cosmic cataclysm, and then nothing would matter? Do we have enough for us to be the supreme consciousness of the Universe?

Bible: A philosophical discussion

God made a world. It was his favourite world. It had a blue sky and bright sunlight. It was warm and comfortable at places, and cool and beautiful at others. He spent many days on it, roaming all around, taking in the sights and wonders of what he had created. It had almost made him feel at home. Compared to the entire universe he had created, he was most proud of this world. As he roamed on it, and as imaginative and creative he was, he created the breeze, the seas and oceans, and mountains and rivers.

he stayed there many more days, resting in his paradise. Lying down comfortably in a valley, he thought about what he had achieved. He basked in his glory, but soon therewas a feeling trickling in, that kept bothering him. Surely this creation of his was not complete. So he thought and it dawned on him that it was not enough for him alone to appreciate this whole of creation. he needed to create life.

He made the trees that got nourishment from the earth, sun and air. Then he made animals that lived on fruits from the trees, but then he got even more curious and imaginative and made many more kinds of creatures, some of which roamed the earth, some flew while some lived in the seas. He was proud of them all but still there was more curiosity and craving. He wanted his creations to comprehend the magnitude of his creation and appreciate it all and acknowledge it and be proud of him. He wanted them to believe that it was all because of Him that they were alive.

He made one. He made it in almost his own image. He called him Adam. He taught him many things. He taught him how to think, how to live, how to feel. He realised that for Adam to appreciate the world he would need free thought and will. So Adam felt many things, and when He was not around he would feel lonely. God realized this and felt he had made a mistake and doubted whether he was capable of truly comprehending the magnitude of his creation and to appreciate it. He felt, after Adam passed he would try some other kind of life form, much better than Adam. None the less Adam was his child and having much love for him made him a gift, Eve. Adam wasn't lonely anymore.

While God was away, Adam and Eve together enjoyed life and the fruits of God's creations. After many days, and out of curiosity Adam and Eve discovered each others' bodies and fell in love. On His return God was furious at them both for having consumed the forbidden fruit. He was least pleased at this was against His plans. Be as merciful as he was, he could not punish their act. He realized that Adam and Eve would very soon not need Him at all and that he would not get his due appreciation after all, so he retired. He abandoned them, to wait for this species to eradicate itself, as flawed as they were, he wouldn't have to wait long. Then he would resume on Paradise. He would know the flaws by now and would make them perfect.

But there is an alternative. The children of Adam and Eve could prove to be that worthy creation by really striving to comprehend and grasp the whole of God's creation. that would be the time when they could really appreciate it in all its glory, instead of just praying and begging for forgiveness and falsely singing songs and hymns in the praise of the Lord and His creations.