I was just sitting in class, doing the usual thing of spacing out and occupying my mind, when something simple, but so tremendous popped into my mind: It may take years, 1,000, 10,000, or even 1,000,000, but there will be last human. That all of our ingenuity, our history, our work, and our legacy, will all be left without an owner and will no longer be able to continue forward. It's a bit blunt, and maybe even depressing, but just thinking about that made me get absolutely lost in thought for the rest of class which let me think of a few more things: Sometime in the future, there will be people who will look upon one of my photos, and not even remotely care that I was a person with a life, with a family, with dreams, and so on, much like we do with old photos today and we were all the youngest person on Earth at one point in time. I don't know, these are just some crazy thoughts I've had, but enough about me, what amazing thoughts do you guys have?
In a 100 years, or maybe a little more, everyone who exists at this moment will be dead. Kinda makes you wonder what we're going to miss out on.....
I have weird thoughts like that all the time. Does that mean I'm more weird than you? ...hmmm. I think of stuff like, how is it that out of all the humans on earth that ever existed, not one has been the same as the other? Or if there have been two that were exactly the same, except one lived 4 years ago and the other lived 4000 years ago, we would never know. Or (here's one that's a doozy, IMO), there might be a whole host of things out there (or even right here on Earth) that we don't understand and never will understand, and will continue to work behind the scenes while we try to understand them in vain. I'm weird.
I wonder who my ancestors were. Like my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents. I don't know much about my family history. Hopefully they were more than a farmer, like a lord or something. Sorry, I started reading Game of Thrones. It's given me weird thoughts like that.
I am shamed, since I am Dutch, that means my ancestors were Germanic and not Roman. GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER, I AM DISAPPOINT.
Let's see....I'm Puerto Rican, so that means I'm either descended from the Spanish, or a mixture of Spanish, Carribean native, and African blood. I look Spanish though, so that's more likely. It's weird thinking about how far your family goes back. Almost as weird as looking forward in time.
All my ancestors would be Indian. Considering my grandparents are Indian, I don't see their ancestors leaving the country. And the Indian civilisation goes quite far back. I've never really given thought to this before.
Think about this, it would only have been a couple of generations of ancestors back to BC. The average person lives to the age of 80 so count all the way back through the years until you reach BC. Yeah, not that many people before you is there? And come to think of it, what with all the disasters and mass slaughters that have happened throughout history, our families have survived. Take the Middle Ages for example. They were brutal times with the plague and sieges and such. Yet our families must have lived through all that in order for us to be here right now.
Speaking of disasters and mass slaughters: As a descendent of the Spanish, let me apologize for the Spanish Inquisition, which my family may or may not have played any part in whatsoever. It was unexpected....
Why? I mean we are on one tiny planet...in an almost infinite universe....which may or may not be in a sea of other universes.So i ask...why do anything?What are we changing?We are only effecting one floating rock in an infinite void.Everything else hasnt changed in 13.4 billion years.So why are we fighting?We are only harming ourselves.Why do we need peace?We would only save one planet.
What occasionally pops in my head is my family's history. Actually, Assassin's Creed popped it into my head the first time. For all you know, you could have famous ancestors. Just think about it. Maybe you're the descendent of the guy who discovered fire.
It's our nature to narccicisize. We believe we are important because we never stop to think that we might not be.
In terms of l'universe, we're completely insignificant. Therefore, I have deduced that humans have made a civilised society simply for fun.
If by fun you mean because we wanted to, then yeah, pretty much. You could ask "Why do bees build a hive instead of being loners?", same answer. We just feel the need/instinct to, I guess.
Lets face it, when the English boats did that crescent formation way back when, the Spanish didn't have anything on us. "Dare to be Wise"...The lords who sat in Devon, my how the mighty have fallen... I wonder sometimes whether we will indeed leave this planet...I fear that time has already run out however.
Anything that comes to anything to my head is that in 100 year are so, my great grand children will get to see stuff that I only dream to see happen. Cure of Cancer, Colonizing the moon, Man on Mars, New planets with life on them, New Devices that we never thought possible, and etc. Zephyr Wind is right. In a hundred years or so, we will be forgotten, unless you did something worth being notice and remembered for. I been to a cemetery that is over 200 to 150 years old. I haven't seen anyone visit that cemetery once but to see the dates of birth and deaths on the tombs. Gone but not forgotten.
What if the universe wasn't created. Be it big bang or god, what would happen? Nothing. In fact, it didn't need to happen, so why did it? Something to ponder on for a while.
