To subside to depression is not an act of irrationality. Au contraire, it can be the most logical decision at a point of time. It is not easy to fight this black hole of depression, it is way easier to settle for a defeat. It is agonizing to find someone seized to exist, to let go of his earthly condition. I hope you don’t fall in the pit and follow the rabbit. No matter what I do or say, it want change what happened, it won’t matter. I have come by this pit many a times, yet I was not ready to meet my maker, as Borges did. I am not a special one, I am merely a normal human, but sometimes I look into the mirror and I see emptiness, just as if I have lost my shadow, my soul, myself. Sometimes tears escape my eyes for those lost souls who lost their fights. Aint easy to take that decision, to willingly chose to stop living, it is actually one of the most daring decisions one can take. Also, it can mean ultimate loss of hope and decisive abandonment. To be sane and take ...
In the year 2036, humanity made its first alien contact. They called themselves a nation — a carbon-based one, genetically familiar, sharing over 60% of our DNA. But no one expected... alien smart bananas. Our human-made artificial intelligence, emotionless by design, quickly calculated the optimal path forward. It ordered all farming systems worldwide to plant bananas. Meanwhile, in Egypt, the authoritarian high priest decided this occasion deserved a monument. He built a lighthouse in the shape of a banana. It was... bantastic. When the alien nation finally arrived, they demanded nothing but land. “Bananas are originally from Earth,” they declared. “We are home.” Global farming AIs, consulting game theory models, concluded the most balanced outcome: each nation would give a precise percentage of their territory to the alien bananas. The Egyptians, ever resourceful, tried to bribe them instead — with specially crafted banana-flavored shisha tobacco. The aliens were ...