Something that I would like to paraphrase from a favorite story of mine...
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Imagine there are 100 bikers(motorcyclists) biking down an endless highway. Eventually, they come across a split in the road - one way going Northeast, the other going Northwest. Not having an immediate route in mind, a person - lets call him T - pipes up and says "lets go Northwest!". About 5 miles down the road, a trucker going the other way dozes off and plows through each of the bikers. 90 passed away, 10 - including T - were wounded but survived. The survivors continue to go down this road and eventually, they have rode for 5,000 miles. Suddenly, the unpredictable happens - T's consciousness is sent back in time to the point right before they reach the split in the road. Like any person with a rightful mind would do, T says "lets go Northeast!". They continue to ride down the Northeastern highway and eventually reach their destination. Happily ever after.
So what about the 10 who survived the accident... or 9, actually since T's consciousness was sent back. Anyways, what would happen to their lives - their realities? Do they just poof? Are they gone? What could of happened on that 5,000 mile trip are not limited to bad things. One of the bikers might have fallen in love. One of the bikers might have met a kid who wanted to ride with them - now being considered a "son" to them. There would be so many experiences - "friendships, farewells". Although the loss of 90 lives was unfortunate, the 9 who did survive still lived full lives. Would it even be morally or ethically right to try and erase all of that? What happened on that road caused them to experience everything they did in the time after that. So isn't that worth something? We're only human so isn't that the best thing we can aspire to? Is there even a point to a world where only the best can occur?
"Being human is about fighting even when it seems hopeless, and finding happiness even in a world that hates it"
This was paraphrased from the Visual Novel game, Virtue's Last Reward by Aksys Games and writer, Uchikoshi. The purpose of this was to share a thought that I agree with, and I do not claim it to be originally mine.
 oTobias · Sun Mar 10, 2013 @ 07:55pm · 1 Comments |
