Sunday, August 7, 2016

What If...

What if tomorrow every piece of technology would cease to work, every piece of paper would cease to exist, everything created by man to identify each of us would go away and our memories of its existence would go with them?  How would we then know who we are and who our family is? 

What about if we all were to wake up tomorrow and no longer have knowledge of societal rules?  What if we were to wake up and all the rules were gone and we the rights and wrongs of the world no longer had a meaning? 

We would wake up in a world where family is the people you know and love, the people who have been there for you every day supporting you and caring about you.  There wouldn't be a piece of paper tying you to someone you don't identify with but only your memories of the ones you love would dictate who you decide to tie yourself to. 

If we got a clean slate from the definitions of right and wrong as we know them now, maybe we would then stay out of each other's way.  Maybe we would be more tolerant of each other and possibly even love each other.  Maybe it is not human nature that is jealous or hateful, but society coming together like it has.  Maybe it is society as a whole the one that has divided people throughout the years with these pre-conceptions it has formed that take generations to change. 

Maybe if we were to erase the memory of what society is, of what society has told us right and wrong are, of all the records showing us whatever history supposedly says is right and wrong.  If we are only left with the memory of the ones we love, maybe we can have a happier humanity.  One where there is less violence, more tolerance, joy, and love.