Life Before Birth
There is this "imaginary" story that has been published online and out, and throughout the years, there has been variations of it, and some having different titles and a few have different interpretations.
I am not going to give my "own" interpretation, rather I will re-post one of the variations of the story (some call it a parable) and I will just say a few things regarding my reactions to it.
An unborn set of twins are having a conversation in their mother’s womb.
“Tell me, do you believe in life after birth?” asks one of the twins.
“Yes, definitely! In here we are growing and gaining strength for what will face us on the outside,” answers the other.
“That is utter nonsense!” says the first one. “There cannot be life after birth; how is that supposed to look, may I ask?”
“I don’t exactly know myself, but it will certainly be much lighter out there than in here. And perhaps we will actually be running around on our legs and eating with our mouths.”
“I have never heard such nonsense! Eating with your mouth, what a crazy idea! That’s what we have umbilical cords for, to feed us. And you want to run around? It would never work; the umbilical cord is much too short!”
“It will work for sure. It will all be a little different.”
“You are crazy! Nobody has ever come back from after birth! Life ends with our birth and that’s it! Period.”
“I must admit that nobody knows what life will look like after our birth. But I know that we will get to see our mother and that she will take care of us.”
“Mother? You are trying to tell me that you believe in a mother? Well, where then is our mother?”
“Well, here! All around us. We are alive in her and through her. Without her we could not exist!”
“Rubbish! I have never noticed anything of a mother. Therefore, a mother cannot exist.”
It’s true! Sometimes when you are really quiet, you can hear her sing or you can feel when she lovingly caresses our world!”
My reaction:
You see, this life we are living right now, is the only life we really are sure of. Logically, it's hard to imagine what life will be beyond this life, or what is life going to be in the after life.
But if you think about it, our "short" life before this life, we also do not really know what it was all about, I mean with the technology we have right now, we can now "see" the "lives" of babies inside a mother's womb, but we certainly have no idea what it was when we were in their place while we were in that "other world".
Life before our own birth? Yup we really do not know how it was like. But like this "imaginary" story, we also do not know what life was going to be after birth.
This story nevertheless, can put into perspective, the kind of life we may have, after this life.
And this I leave to you...
I am not going to give my "own" interpretation, rather I will re-post one of the variations of the story (some call it a parable) and I will just say a few things regarding my reactions to it.
“Tell me, do you believe in life after birth?” asks one of the twins.
“Yes, definitely! In here we are growing and gaining strength for what will face us on the outside,” answers the other.
“That is utter nonsense!” says the first one. “There cannot be life after birth; how is that supposed to look, may I ask?”
“I don’t exactly know myself, but it will certainly be much lighter out there than in here. And perhaps we will actually be running around on our legs and eating with our mouths.”
“I have never heard such nonsense! Eating with your mouth, what a crazy idea! That’s what we have umbilical cords for, to feed us. And you want to run around? It would never work; the umbilical cord is much too short!”
“It will work for sure. It will all be a little different.”
“You are crazy! Nobody has ever come back from after birth! Life ends with our birth and that’s it! Period.”
“I must admit that nobody knows what life will look like after our birth. But I know that we will get to see our mother and that she will take care of us.”
“Mother? You are trying to tell me that you believe in a mother? Well, where then is our mother?”
“Well, here! All around us. We are alive in her and through her. Without her we could not exist!”
“Rubbish! I have never noticed anything of a mother. Therefore, a mother cannot exist.”
It’s true! Sometimes when you are really quiet, you can hear her sing or you can feel when she lovingly caresses our world!”
My reaction:
You see, this life we are living right now, is the only life we really are sure of. Logically, it's hard to imagine what life will be beyond this life, or what is life going to be in the after life.
But if you think about it, our "short" life before this life, we also do not really know what it was all about, I mean with the technology we have right now, we can now "see" the "lives" of babies inside a mother's womb, but we certainly have no idea what it was when we were in their place while we were in that "other world".
Life before our own birth? Yup we really do not know how it was like. But like this "imaginary" story, we also do not know what life was going to be after birth.
This story nevertheless, can put into perspective, the kind of life we may have, after this life.
And this I leave to you...
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