​Simultaneity of Life

Somewhere in a universe, within the Perseus–Pisces Supercluster, surrounded by the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, and revolving around an average-sized middle-aged star, sat a blue marble. On this blue marble, something wonderful happened. There had been nothing like it before, and nothing quite comparable to it after. The exigence defied many rules enforced by the rigid and unwavering universe. It moved the foundations of matter against their concentration gradients. It created complex chemical chains of elements that twirled, undulated, folded, and snapped millions of ways in the spans of nanoseconds. It could even produce copies of itself almost out of thin air. Strangely, it felt different from the rest of the universal body it inhabited. Just as the cancer cell emancipates itself from the collective, the exigence found itself alone and unique in the cold reality it inhabited. It wasn’t sure why it existed – its organ of cognition had not yet sufficiently evolved in order to answer questions of that caliber – but even its rudimentary consciousness could suddenly grasp the unbound magnitude of its own being. In that moment, it looked upwards towards the twinkling stars, and felt an overwhelming surge of something it had never felt before:

A wholly, pure, and unadulterated love for its existence.