Genesis

We humans need answers to things we don’t understand. It’s our natural behavior.’

‘And when we can’t find the real answers to ease the pain,’ Garcia offered, ‘we tend to fabricate them ourselves.’

When you die, you cease to exist, Captain,’ Hunter clarified. ‘You cease to be, and so do all your emotions… all your feelings. You don’t feel any pain anymore… or love, or anger, or remorse, or guilt, or shame…’ He shrugged. ‘There’s no more suffering once you’re dead. Suffering is done by those who are left behind.’

Nowadays, more and more people are searching for validation from complete strangers, comparing themselves and their lives to individuals, who they’ve never met and probably never will. When they don’t match up, and they never do because they are essentially comparing themselves to a lie, they get low…

Nowadays, more and more people are searching for validation from complete strangers, comparing themselves and their lives to individuals, who they’ve never met and probably never will. When they don’t match up, and they never do because they are essentially comparing themselves to a lie, they get low…

few people on this planet had the luxury of doing a job that they really wanted to do. Few lived a life they really wanted to live, even those who were fabulously rich.

With the lack of immediate answers, a traumatized and stressed mind would inevitably start creating its own… and it would create an army of them. It didn’t matter if those answers sounded absurd or not. It didn’t matter if they sounded like a crazy fantasy or not. To a mind at the brink of breaking, they would all sound plausible because the desperate need for answers would overwhelm rational thinking, and as those answers started sounding like the real deal, the mind would initiate a new, very damaging, line of questioning – the ‘what ifs’ and ‘should haves’.