TO KNOW IF YOU'RE IMPORTANT AFTER YOU DIE

   So after some series of letting people go and procrastination and post physics tests. I was free from all sources of distraction and had time to think and write a little in my, yet another, unpublished novel.

   So I was going through some fictional phase when I thought that let's suppose we are in a distant future with some sort of machine that could do complex calculation on our lives and let us know if we'll be crucial to timeline or not or in simpler brutal words, if the world would care after we die?

   This machine will let us know if after we died the world would remember us or if someone was to travel back in time and kill us, the history would change. So the important question that lies here is, do we really want to know it? Would you really let the machine tell you if you're important or not. I did a little home survey (I ask questions from blood relatives, saves me the trouble of looking like an idiot) and find out that out of 10 9.5 people would NOT like to know if they're important or not. I said 9.5 because the last person is lazy and confused and that guy would be...me.

   So why would we not like to know if we're important or not? Like some realists would suggest, wouldn't that answer the age old questions we keep on fighting to in our daily lives. Its because the illusion of a far away success, of feeling like you are the hero of the story you live in gives us hope in doing our work and reaching our goals. If I were to know that no one would give a damn after I die that would probably lure me to depression and I would lose my daily motivation of doing my tasks. That would lead me to crisis of faith, to questions like "why should I do this, I'm not important after all" and the end would be a meaningless end to life, death. Not knowing what we'll end up as makes this life sort of an adventure. It originates an illusion, it gives us vibes that put our hopes and dreams together, and makes ourselves believe that we matter. Which leads to another change in our daily lives and we live a happier and better life.

   I don't know if anyone read till here. Its pretty long and new what I wrote. If you did, thanks, it means a lot to late night fictional thoughts of mine and to my inner thrust of finding the Zahir. Thanks again.

Books for coming weeks:
Zahir Paulo Coelho (reread)
The Green Mile (Stephen King)
Hyrule Historia (Nintendo inc)

- Zain Rizwan