Ever feel like you don’t belong here? Like you’re from another planet?
Do you occasionally look around at all the people around you – and all their stuff – and ask, “Who are these people?”
When you see a falling star
Do you make a wish?
Or wonder
“Are they coming to take me home?”
I am not here to contradict anything you might believe about yourself of your origin. Whatever you believe is absolutely true, though, just for fun, you might like to consider:
You are not from here and you are not from another planet.
You are from another place far above the cosmos, where you can see all the universes at the same time and from this perspective, the multiverse looks like a huge display at the museum of science, where you can walk around and see everything in real time.
It’s a challenge to fathom from this vantage point because here we live in linear time, where outside all that we know (and have yet to discover) time does not exist, as we know it.
This is where you are from.
One of the attractions at the museum of science includes selecting a life to live on any of the inhabited planets. It is a full immersion experience where you will feel all of the feelings and you may not opt out of the ride once you start it. It will feel like you’ve lived an entire lifetime, and on your planet of choice, you will have lived an entire life but in the museum of science, the ride only takes approximately five minutes.
Using my imagination, I pretend this is where I am from:
While I am living this life, here, on planet earth, I feel at peace with the idea that the greater part of me is off-camera, so to speak, back at my point of origin, lying in a recliner, possibly with a headset hooked up to some large equipment (though I realize this kind of technology is likely not necessary, it just makes it easier to wrap my head around it by visualizing it this way from this vantage point).
With this pretext in mind, sometimes, when I am going through the most intense, dangerous or ironic plot points in my life, I will break character, look into the unseen camera, assuming that the greater part of me is watching from afar, and I’ll say something, like, “Who writes this stuff?”
Okay, back to real life; that was just a fun little diversion.
The truth is, if
All Things Are Possible
Either they are, or they are not; it’s up to you to decide whether they are or they are not.
If all things are possible, then all of us/each of us can come from, and go to, anywhere.
So, if you’re feeling like you’re not from here, you’re probably right.
Elon Musk says we’re all characters in one big video game.
Where are you from? Only you can decide what you can live with. Maybe you’re just from dust to dust and that’s all there is to it. Certainly there are those here on this planet who do have that origin and finite life, you could be one of those.
Or you could be one of the many other possibilities.
Think about that for a minute, or not.
Good Lord, man. Earth IS “ONE BIG VIDEO GAME!”