Sunday, October 22, 2006

Hi all,
I've never blogged before, so please be bearable with my skills.

Today, I'd like to share a theory about what happens after life. I understand that there are a few atheists in our class, as well as a few religious followers as well. But please remember, it is only a theory, and I hope that this would provide some form of explanation and comfort to those who feel lost.

Have you ever had the feeling, that when you sleep, you will never wake up again?
Well, I have, which is why I have always had a certain fear of fatigue, of sleeping, a fear of death and unconsciousness. However, due to the haze these few days, I have not been very healthy, which makes sleep inevitable for recovery. As such, I tried to look around for an explanation, and found one at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylc=X3oDMTFhYjFkc2V1BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOQRfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA2ZwBHNsawN0b2RheQ--?qid=20061020091115AA9a518&fr=hp where users gave answers to Dr.Deepak Chopra’s question of “what happens to your soul when you die”. I think a good explanation was that our soul lives on in the memory of friends and family. People whom we have touched in our lives, that continue living long after we die, all carry with them a part of us which is living, just that probably this part of us is so insignificant, that we don’t feel ourselves living within them. Take for example, when we say words of encouragement to someone else, the sound waves we emit are actually part of our body system, but when it reaches someone else, it converts itself to some other form of energy, probably, some form of inspirational energy that drives the person to do even greater things. But remember, this energy is still part of us, because mass and energy are the same things in different forms after all. When we grow old, very old, we would have given many people and objects much of our energy, and thus, our cumulative energy would have decreased fairly. Our body systems fail, we begin to lose control of our memory and of time itself, eventually, what is left of us is a heap of decaying cells.

But, is this what we really are? I think not. I think we are still alive as variable amounts of energy in the people and things we have devoted our lives to, which our initial collective consciousness is unable to detect, where these people will continue to touch other people until the sun burns its last breath, and if, mankind is able to escape, or send some form of signal to the rest of the universe to justify our existence before apocalypse, we would be part of that signal as well.

I know it sounds like some Japanese anime kind of life theory, but I just wanted to release some of my thoughts which is what a blog is meant for.
Thanks for your patience.