It is half time, in terms of the project of making a homo sapien! In 20 weeks from now, we would have added another human life form
to this world. Our contribution to human civilization. A good thing or a bad
thing, it is to be seen. A rather
overwhelming emotion overcomes me at the thought of it. 500
milliion years ago, all we could have produced was a chordate. And now we are homo sapiens. The questions is, what kind of a world do I
want ET to come into? A question that
has been ever lingering in my mind since we knew of its existence. I cannot do much at this time, but the least is
to prepare ourselves for it. Apparently,
ET can pick up sounds now. Obviously,
the closest sound now is that of Ingrid. It must have the same effect that one
has when one is underwater in a swimming pool.
I want ET to be musically and mathematically inclined. Physics and Astronomy can come in later. I know, I am being in a sense unfair,
as I maybe projecting my interest and
trying to live my dreams, aspirations and deal with my disappointments through
this child. Nevertheless, the last thing
I want is for the child to grow up to be a mindless brick, and has no knowledge
of the world and universe around and needs a calculator to add 124 and 318. No! I
do not want the child to have the expression of a dead plank, when asked who
Newton, Marie Curie or Charles Darwin was. I
do not want the child to settle for a mediocre life, but a life well
lived. One thing, I will keep ET away
from is, religion and psychologist. The
curse of our civilization. Who have
answers for everything but no solution.
I want ET to be one with nature
and live by the laws of nature and not by governments, rights activist or
church! This does not mean I want ET to start a
revolution. (Look what happened to
Mullah Osama!)
I want ET to be one who
believes in the survival of the fittest. After all, it is a ‘kill’ or ‘be killed’
world we live in. That is how nature
works. Weather we accept it or not. Thank goodness nature does not exhibit favoritism.
As humans, we are a remarkable proof of
over 4.5 Billion years of ecological success. And that success of survival must be carried
on. ET must be aware of the truth; that
we come from a long line of failure. We
are apes that nearly went extinct 15 million years ago to the better designed
monkey. We are primates or a group of
mammals that almost lost to the better designed rodents 45 million years
ago. We survived from going extinct as tetra
pods to the dinosaurs over 200 million years
ago. We came from limbed fish
but fought the better designed ray finned fish 360 million year ago. And during the Cambrian period 500 million
years back we were chordates, who fought the brilliantly successful arthropods
and survived. That is the story of our
success and fight for survival. That is how it was, that is how it is, and that
is how it will be. That is how I wish
for ET to live. In the beauty and elegance of nature. That
is the religion that I would encourage ET to follow. Not from a book written by misguided people
and followed by deluded masses, nor from books written by society’s failures
who take up the studies that have no basis. As
long as the child knows to respect all living forms and not be a moral misfit
in this world, it would means the child has done well. Am I asking for too much?
Do I need to re-write the Bible, just for ET’s betterments?
I actually thought about it. And realized, It will start with…in the
beginning there was nothing. Trying to
explain what nothing is will be the most fruitless exercise I would undertake.
I could write my hind legs off, and still will have nothing actually
conveyed. So, no bible writing from
me. Unless, I am hit or enlighten by
something I know nothing about now. But
then, I am told that music is something that will go along way.
The Beatles, have always been my
favourites. How do I get ET into that
now? I will start now on that. I just found out that there is a lullaby
rendition of all the nice song done by the Beatles. Golden Slumber, is the best! I have downloaded at least 9 songs now. To expose ET to the right music,
we will play it as often as possible.
Who knows, when ET pops out, it might come out whistling ‘Yellow Submarine’. Well, in a sense ET has been living
‘underwater’.
The day after, is our day with the Gynecologist! As for now, all seems well and kicking. Yes, literally kicking!!
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