Friday, October 17, 2008

Life in Reverse

For many people, the worst part of life is the way it ends. It would be wonderful if we could have a chance to start life in reverse.

How?

You wake up in a funeral home, inside a coffin, and everyone you know is around you, crying and mourning over you.

You straighten up from the coffin, old, mature and bland. Everyone is there, you get a great amount respect, compliments, see your children and grandchildren, everything is ready.

You get in your car and drive to your home. As soon as you are born, you get a social security deposit from the government and you take it monthly or once every three months. How nice, ready salary, ready house...

Everything is guaranteed till the 60s age range; you live in peace. Your health gets better, and your muscles are improving, you are getting stronger. One day you want to work, and on the first day you start the work you get a plaque and a golden watch from your boss as a welcoming gift.

And you start work as a general manager or in a high position as an experienced person. Everyone is respecting you. And your body gets in form by and by.

Other hormonal activities are increasing as well. The most beautiful days are starting. Just then, your boss comes and tells you that it would be better to go to a university now. Meanwhile, your parents comes to life and tells you that you "worked too much” and to come back to home; leave work, start studying; they are willing to support you financially.

Can you imagine the joy? The lectures you are taking are getting easier. The best times are starting: parties, dating, learning.

Just then, your mother or father starts to take you to and from school, now you don’t even have to bother driving. And one day, they take you from the school and tell you to sit at home and play with your toys; enjoy your time.

Now you are starting to be fed baby food and using diapers; even better, you are cleaned as well. Moreover, you get used to this situation and you don’t even need to use the toilet, ever.

Just then, your mother decides to feed you with milk, and another joyful time is starting. Baby food is now everywhere, any time and fresh, ready all the time.

One day, you go into a dark and warm place. Now you don’t even have to open your mouth to be able to feed. Now you live in a warm and quite environment.

Now you are getting smaller, smaller and smaller and become a cell. One day, your life ends after the finish of a pleasant lovemaking.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That sounds nice, but on the other hand it would be kind of a drag. Life's most rewarding feeling to me is the constant acquisition of knowledge. If you live it backwards you loose more and more knowledge until your own name becomes a mystery. So, while the idea has it's allure. I prefer life in the forward motion.

Qing said...

Oh I know. It's not a situation that I wish happened or would happen... just something to think about; our perceptions would be completely disparate.