Here I am. It’s way past midnight... And I’m sitting at my desk, feet propped up on it, staring into space and contemplating the mysteries of life! I wish I could see the stars; but there is a haze out there and all I can see is darkness.
Darkness engulfs my mind too, as I struggle to penetrate the haze of habit and look beyond the Mirage. I ought to be asleep by now, but my consciousness has already reached for the stars!
And I revel in my insignificance.
A dot on a dot in the Solar System... itself a dot in the Milky Way... which is another dot in the mind boggling mammothness of a dotted Cosmos... Enough to make you go dotty, I tell you. The edge of the Universe may be way beyond contemplation, but I can already see myself going over the edge and crashing into the darkness of uncharted oblivion!
I wish I could say the silence is deafening. Far from it. The crickets are orchestrating in full swing. My clock ticks on in an eerie rhythm. Someone zooms by on his bike. And a temple bell rings in some faraway corner.
The world is still a busy place. Our insignificance is lost behind the veil cast by Everyday Life. We slog and grind and one day passes another in unrelenting succession. Our depressions and sorrows scar the face of civilization. Science proceeds at a frenetic pace in the ivory towers. Pseudo-science and superstition keep pace on the ground. And nobody can figure out just where to draw the line.
Hmmm... The aliens must be having a hearty laugh!
And through it all, the world saunters on... busy as the crickets, slave to habit like the ticking clock and struggling to stay happy on the wings of a late-night partygoer! All waiting for the death knell to ring...
Cabbages and kings, we’ll all bite the dust.
Keep playing the busy game, dear ol’ world.
I love you; but I’m going to sleep.
2 comments:
Good one...Everyone is so busily touting their own self importance that we forget how insignificant we really are :D
Then again, we aren't... Remember the Power of One? There lies the duality! ;-)
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