Afterlife

From Dante to Ricky Gervais   from Dracula to Casper, from horror movies to SciFi, religion to science, people and human history is teeming with records of man’s failed attempts in knowing what happens after Life or in the “afterlife”

We think we have found the answer? No we don’t.  But we have realised one thing: it’s interesting for everyone except Absurdist and materialists, ironically they seem to have no connection in time or ideologies. For absurdist human life has no value and for materialists value is human life. But of course this is the connection, the link.

It’s all about now. Carpe diem, cries absurdist, winning a nod from the modern day materialist. Future scares them. Its blank face confuses them. It makes them nervous to walk towards something that they may not be able to deal with. It could be anything or something but if it’s not actually nothing it would be too late for them to come up with a new excuse, “boring" wouldn’t absolve anyone of the time we might have to do in the Afterlife.

Art is everyday putting some colour in the hollowness of tomorrow. Science is voicing words of caution and query filling up the vacuum with echoes of possibilities. Religion is administering cathartic, meditative maybe even addictive drugs to help people deal with the blazing blankness of coming times.

The soul of this whole contemplation is; there’s never nothing even when there is death. There is probably always a tomorrow, a progression in time and space is all we have seen even when it was deteriorating so why not hope there is an afterlife and in that, it’s not important. It’s important if it’s making us do something today, making us think something today, making us who we want to be then, today. Afterlife is maybe just living with us side by side. The upside down of our knowable Now.

 

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BaSila Hasnain

26-10-2020