Make Sense

Darkness envelops the universe.

Light is scattered, sources few and far in between.

Lifeless.

Then there’s the earth…

There was a time when life couldn't see, evolutionarily speaking.

Supported by a sun, it harnessed this energy and propelled itself into more complex beings- one tentative DNA strand at a time.

But it couldn’t see.

Until enough tentative dna strands got together- probably high on an excess of this life business- decided to try something inconceivable. Form organs that could experience this light, in a way no one else bothered to try.

The first eyes- imagine how they saw the world.

It was ugly.

You see, life wasn't dressed for the occasion.

It was busy smelling nice and tasting nice it didn't know it had to look nice too. Eventually though, perhaps through natural selection, the world became prettier. Flowers blushed, birds began shaking their tail feathers etc.

And we reach where we are today, in evolutionary terms.

Life has spread its roots through quite a few mediums, sight, smells, taste, touch and hearing, some combine these senses to get their unique experience of the world, bats and dolphins with echolocation, rattlesnakes with their smelling tongues and sharks with their ability to translate electricity.

But what if life isn't done yet?

What if there is another sense as plausible as sight, as painstakingly obvious and as surprisingly inconceivable as it too.

Life is connected to the universe in a way intelligence cannot fathom.

Imagine. If enough tentative DNA strands got together- probably high on an excess of this life business again- decided to try something inconceivable once more.

Imagine. If they tapped into another medium altogether.

Imagine us opening our proverbial eyes of that new sense for the first time.

To witness again, life in all its ugly, naked glory.