Again as I read CNN.com, watch the news, listen to people talk, and utterly feel the hurt and pain and suffering in this world deep within my bones, I ask myself the question “is this what is intended for us as a race?”

Cast all your thoughts and perceptions and beliefs of world policy, human rights, religion, politics, etc. away for a moment (good luck). I’m asking you to think strictly from the mind of a singular, human being. Look at where we are in the world, look at where we are in our evolution - look at where we are situated in our universe, our galaxy, in space itself.

Think for a moment - we’ve been peering into the stars for years and years and years. We’ve been listening to the sky with every scientific instrument we can muster to point up. We’ve shot satellites to the deep trenches of space around our tiny little planet, and yet not a word has been heard. No green aliens have popped up and said hello. No smoke signals have been detected in space. Up to this point, we know ourselves to be completely, utterly alone.

So think to yourself - what if we -ARE- the seedling planet in all of existence. What if we -ARE- the only living beings out there. What if the intention for us, is indeed to seed the rest of universe? What if the intention for us is to populate the planets and the galaxies and the far reaches of existence?

Just as we look back at photos of our great great great grandparents and think of how they we starting a whole new life in just another continent, maybe eons from now civilizations will be looking back at the planet earth as that brave new world that started it all.

All the talk out there about how the world will end, how society will come to a halt, how some massive volcano is going to wipe us out… maybe our job is to evolve beyond that - to further ourselves enough as a human race that simple weather and geology and astronomical impacts are no longer of concern to us, because we have created enough technology to withstand them, survive them, to prevent them. Enough technology to inhabit the Moon and Mars and even Vega. 

Now put your politico-reigio-societo hat back on and look around at the arguments we have in our tiny little countries on this little spec of dust called Earth. Are they worth it? If indeed our job is to civilize the entire universe, does it do us any good to cast ourselves into such distinct segments of people, to start fights with each other, to threaten each other with war and anger and power? 

What would happen if we stopping pointing our guns at each other and we all started looking at the sky? What would happen if we, as human beings, agreed to unite under the stars in the sky and look beyond our worldly lives and into a future further ahead then we can comprehend? Maybe we would be able to create something truly remarkable instead of continuing to destroy something truly irreparable… our legacy.

Is it possible?