Our Viral Legacy

Viruses are unwanted, unwarranted, scum. You and I can do anything to prevent it from infecting our body. Right on both counts? Great.




None the less they settle in, create a favourable environment inside us, breed, expand, kill a few cells/tissues, maybe mutilate organs; suffer some losses themselves too, and generally stay till the time our body grows powerful enough to combat and kick them out. With or without antiviral. All hail the great virus – the tough nut!



Now I am not sure, but I guess they have a complex society too, structured and labour divided among them, and some of them might even drive their versions of cars, have elections, form governments or watch movies. Possibly they call our body their ‘mother’ too. All for a very small time, according to our standards – a few days to a week at the most. And then, they phase out. The ugly ones leave us dead or partially mutilated, the bad ones leave an organ handicapped for a while and the not-so-bad ones vanish without a trace. Uncomfortable? Find this strikingly similar to something? Especially the car driving, government forming bit?



Ok, so do you, like me, think that humanity sounds like some virus suddenly? The car driving types? If you do not/can not, you might stop reading this right now, call me a retard and quit this page. Then again, you might want to reflect a bit on the same. And if you do suppose, you will be amused to find out that all the other characteristics fit pretty snugly. Even the phasing-out bit.



If you are still around however, guess whether we are the ugly ones, the bad ones or the not-so-bad ones. I think maybe we are not potent enough to be ugly, so we are just the bad ones. When we phase out within a small time – coz a few thousand years is a blink and miss period in geological time, we will leave our ‘mother’ barren and bleeding for a while. But to the universe at large, it would be as insignificant as a small boil, at some corner of its body.



Viruses can not be destroyed. They float within their spores, looking for suitable environment. Hell, aren’t we doing the same already! And so are the UFO’s – if they exist. Looks like we are nearly done with our ‘mother’. For those of us who survive, because the host is going to retaliate sooner or later (with or without antiviral), how about packing up and booking a seat in the next spore? We, the self righteous ‘spoilt but loving brats’ of the Lord, might still be in time to save our viral legacy 