One Day the Sun Will Eat the Earth...

The End is Nigh...

  It's true.  One day in the future, the sun will become what astrophysicists call a Red Giant.  It will become increasingly oxygen deprived, angry, and fat.  As it becomes more and more insecure and needy, it will swell and swell. It will expand and grow, seeking energy; engulfing the very planets that orbit it.  Ultimately, it will collapse into a black hole.  All remaining matter within the black hole's vicinity will be sucked in and crushed, caving in on itself; destroying on a cellular level everything that matter ever was or ever would be. It's going to be fucking crazy!

  Bear in mind, none of us will be alive to witness such a spectacular end to the only home we've ever known and everything we ever saw or touched, loved or hated, coveted or tried to distance ourselves from. We will have long since burned up from the radiant energy being emitted by the dying star. In the end, everything will be compressed into the same speck of carbon.  That brings it all close to home, doesn't it?  That guy you hate at work whose jokes are always so fucking mundane, one-note, and racist?  His cells and your cells will one day be one. 

  We are all destined to one day rejoin the cosmic continuum in this way.  If there is an afterlife I believe in, it is this one.  We become a part of the void.  It's fitting, in my view, given how much weight we give our lives and all the milestones and hallmarks contained therein, that we should be reduced to such an infinitesimally minuscule speck of matter, encompassing literally everything. It has a certain elegance to its awful simplicity and finality. It makes mockery of all our worries and concerns.  If you think that job you're applying for is important, that project you want to start will change the world, or that love you seek could break the bonds of solitude; it matters not.  In the end, none of us will be alone.

  If there is a point to this diatribe (I hope there is, I sort of have to), it is this: Love each other, forget your anger, avoid those who seek to do harm to your peace and tranquility, and be prepared to join the beautiful, eternal, inward-spiraling abyss. There is no escaping it anyway. You might as well enjoy the ride.

This article was inspired by Carl Sagan, Prof. Stephen Hawking, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Luke Skywalker, Bender, Flash Gordon and Capt's James Tiberius Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard

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