Last month I visited a black hole…

Tired of all the hatred, debates, and baseless views of people on different affairs across the world I decided to escape this mess and take the next rocket to space. While enjoying the view of vibrant clusters of galaxies, nebulae and other stars I was suddenly pulled towards an absolutely black body. I saw other heavenly bodies getting dragged too. Initially awestruck, I quickly realized that it was a Black Hole – the densest and the darkest body in the universe. Being aware of its immense gravitational force, I knew I couldn’t escape it and thus gave into it, thinking of enjoying the last few minutes of my life.

During the journey towards the death hole what I observed was astounding. Huge clusters of stars and planets were collapsing into it within minutes. The huge monster was gulping down everything around it. I noticed that at this level of closeness there is nothing like living and non-living, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, thin or fat as everything turns into the smallest particle humanity has ever known or even beyond that. I conceived my existence in this universe as not close to even a speck of dust. Today, if I die, nothing will change across the universe. Everything around me will keep functioning the way it was. Forget the universe, nothing will change back on earth. Only a handful of people will cry for a short period of time, but life will go on. Soon it struck me that I was giving unnecessary importance to myself. I am literally no one. Why the ego, why those judgments, why that chaos of thoughts? Everything seemed so worthless.

While I was close to the black hole but still in one piece, I suddenly saw a “Quasar.” A quasar is a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy whose luminosity is beyond unprecedented levels. This energy is nothing but the earlier digested cosmic entities of the black hole. This was a great example of how everything comes from nothing and goes back to nothing. We have been created by the creator and will go back to the creator. What happens in-between is what we call life. While such huge galaxies were being swallowed, I realized how, back on Earth, every human mind was exploding with thousands of thoughts every minute, making views and comments besides the emotional and logical clutter that’s bursting throughout its body. Tomorrow, even if the earth bursts, this gigantic universe will not even care for a second and will keep happening as usual.

I propose that we tend to act uselessly smart and act as if we know everything and everything around is because of us. Looking at the vastness of space that even the great physicists are clueless about, I wonder who am I to make comments. I concluded that I know nothing, but this also instilled in me the longing to know everything. Only if you perceive that you know nothing, the longing to know everything will rise.

Finally, when I was close enough to get atomized, suddenly the song “Wake Up” by The Vamps started playing out of nowhere. Initially bewildered, I simply got up from my deep sleep and shut off the alarm. Woah! It was one hell of a dream. This time, before getting off the bed I just sat for two minutes and thought hard on how a 7-hour sleep can decode the formula for life. The formula was nothing else but “sense.” We all tend to think so much about ourselves. All I want to say is: stop being dead serious about your life.