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Our Mysterious Future

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Human beings love endings. The Big Bang has the Big Crunch, inflation has deflation, and we're probably making our own demise with global warming. It's no wonder that books such as The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Divergent were hits. Both the books describe the destruction of the human race, but not the entire universe. There could be many reasons for this fascination, all stemming from our lack of knowledge about reasons for our existence.

A popular internet meme reads: "Our entire solar system is probably in a glass jar on a shelf in an alien child's room as a science fair project that got a C-."

Everybody dreams of meeting aliens, but would that really be good? For all we know, upon their discovery of our existence, we could be steamrolled for something as trivial as an intergalactic pass.

It could be that we're the black sheep of the crowd, and we're still raving about going to Mars while the rest of the universe is already travelling through time. It could be that we're experiments, and we're fast outliving our usefulness. It could be many things, but reality is merely what we choose to believe.

Instead of worrying about our future, why not live in the present? It could be that this learning turns out to be the only reason for our survival.

Raavee Tripathi is a seventh grader at Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. She enjoys dancing, reading dystopian books, debating, playing sports, and just surfing the internet. Her ambitions do change, but her current goal seems to be re-reading the Harry Potter series for the 15th time.

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