The Creation of Us.

A letter from one character in my novel to another.

It’s widely believed that the chemistry of life begun immediately following the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago. The event created the oldest known star in the universe, Methuselah.  It took over 3 billion years for the universe to have the ability to sustain life, but it wasn’t until 4.2 billion years ago that Earth became inhabitable.

Fast forward to 231 million years ago, the first dinosaurs appeared on our planet, followed by the first birds, 76 million years later. 60 million years ago the first primates evolved, and with them the evolution of Homosapien begun.

The universe took billions of years to create life, eradicating and rebuilding, creating and destroying. Species have lived and died, planets have come and gone, immense changes have occurred. Since the inception of humanity, empires have risen and fallen; we’ve conquered and fought. We’ve created technology, transplanted hearts and created life from organisms. We’ve discovered incredible, beautiful things, we’ve created art, music, literature.

Throughout almost 14 billion years of existence, the universe has managed to place you and I together in the same period, as members of the same species, living on the same continent. It allowed us to communicate, to find each other.

Throughout everything that has happened, we’ve been brought to here and now, and I think it is the most tremendously spectacular thing. When I look at the stars now, I offer my sincerest thank-you to the universe for allowing us this opportunity.  

Author's Note

As with my previous piece, this remains unedited at this stage.

Reviews

[matrixmark]

I am left feeling that I have just looked at a number of snapshots of how the universerve has evolved to where we are today.
I can see that some research went into doing this letter from one character to another.
I have to say, I have no idea where this story is going to go and I do hope you post more up soon, as the story itself I believe will be very different from anything else I have ever read.

Mark.

[JesseMacabre]

Thank-you very much for your feedback! The whole story is in pieces at the moment, but it's slowly coming together. I'll be updating with little paragraphs here and there as I go, and then chapters once the book is truly rolling. :D

[matrixmark]

Please do carry on writing this piece.

Mark.

[CC]

This is so beautiful, please keep writing this

[darkangle]

i love it! the story has this story like feeling but it also is informational