The God of Emotion

A short creation myth about selflessness and discovery.

While many stories say there was nothing in the beginning, there was, in fact, something. The thing had no form, no sight, or sense of smell, but it could think. This thing thought of itself as a spark, though it had no reason or understanding as to why it thought that. The spark was alone, drifting in a seemingly endless darkness and the only emotion it felt was loneliness. One day, or week, or across a nearly infinite span of time, the spark experienced something. It found that it could see. This newfound eyesight saw a ball of fire, drifting close to it, the spark found that it could feel and so that's what it did. The new and vibrant sensations increased the closer it got, so it stayed there and felt the sensations of the fire. Eventually the sensations died down and cooled, the giant ball slowly darkened and rapidly went through several changes. It was then that the spark saw rocky formations and an endless span of water contained in the giant sphere. The spark drifted into the water and found other creatures, though it wasn't sure if they could think like itself. They themselves were just small spheres, floating through the water. So, using its newfound senses of sight and touch, the spark observed the small creatures.

While fixated on one of the organisms, the spark failed to notice one sphere had drifted and touched it. The spark experienced something else that day, fear. The spark, while having little knowledge of the strange creatures, noticed a change in them. They moved with more intent, actively avoiding one another. This sudden change meant that the creatures now required subsistence to survive.  Eventually the spark learned to cooperate with them, leading some to food with bright lights. It did all it could to ensure their survival, for without them the spark would once again be lonely. As time passed the spark learned that it no longer helped them just for itself, but because it had come to care for them. It learned yet another feeling; selflessness, and the rush of a new feeling brought about more changes to the living spheres. They started cooperating with one another. While still fearful of those that looked too different from themselves, they grouped together with other similar spheres and it became so that they no longer required any help from the spark. The spark, with nothing else to do, watched. It watched as they grew larger, it watched as they learned to come out of the water, and it watched as they eventually came to be spread across the entire ball of rock and dirt. The spark gained another emotion; happiness. The spark saw, or assumed, that there was nothing else to do until it saw one creature that was strange. It had a fuzzy covering and, unlike most of the other creatures, nearly walked upright. This creature had done something the spark had never seen, it was using small portions of its planet to gain an advantage over its fellow creatures. These “advantages” were disregarded by the spark, for the truly special thing about them was that they were aware of themselves, not unlike the spark itself. The spark saw how they still retained some of the gifts it had given them, but they started developing their own emotions; anger, jealousy, vanity. These things, as soon as they emerged, were involuntarily absorbed by the spark. The formless watcher suddenly became afraid again, afraid that it would interfere in anger or grow vain in itself. So, the spark went high above the giant rocky sphere, re-purposing the bright lights it had used long ago so that it could watch them from afar. They even came up with a name for it; Stars.

Author's Note

First story ive ever written, i would love honest and critical feedback for what i can improve on.

Reviews

[Samotar]

Having no paragraphs or so, worked, as far as I know, for Lovecraft only. I am not the master as he was, and neither are you. Your whole submission is something, you should think over.