Kids & gods

by Tipu Salman Makhdoom

We love our children; indeed for multiple reasons.

For one they are our heirs. They will take care of our belongings after we will be forced to leave them (both) in peace. Second they will remember us (occasionally) after our death (to no visible benefit to our dead bodies though).

Philosophically,  they carry our genes (only half of them) and follow our traditions (not any more). And so they represent us in this world after our death.

But most importantly, children are the Noah's ark in the flood of non-existence; they are the holy grails. Kids are the other world where we spend our afterlives.

Genes are the only part of our physical existence that we leave behind in this world. In the face of death, which is the decomposer of existence, we keep existing in our genes. And child is the only medium through which this is possible. It is the only possible carrier of our genes. Thus a child is the heavens where we live after death. Without a child, black hole of death will devour us into non-existence.

We love our kids because we love our lives and don't want them to end. And we don't want our lives to end because we love ourselves and don't want to lose ourselves, ever.

We are the gods!