Eclipse

I go pretty deep with the meaning. I read it as the modern take on how we identify the meaning of our own reality, and the nature of our needing to know if we are a creation of intellect, of intelligent design, that made us in a nature that this creator imagined? Or are we descendants of a cosmic incidents that some guess happened 13.8 billion years ago due to a large mass exploding due to a massive pressure built over time. If you think that, than you have to realize that the big bang was wasn't the beginning of time, because what caused this mass to exist anyway? It obviously didn't just "boom" appear. If this is the case, we are the product of a miracle beyond miracles, with the ability to try to map out the how, because it was a random act, there could be no why..therefore we are nothing but specs of cosmic dust that somehow formed after billions of years of "evolution" and with that evolution, somehow intelligence, and the understanding of being, and than the importance of progressing, evolving and the molecules in our body deciding living is a good thing, it must survive and at all costs, thus we lost the fins, the gills, the scales, the walking on four legs, than two, than straighter, with more understanding of the things around us. Evolution is the meaning that are the remnants of the biggest microwave explosion of all time, and the ingredients that came to be, over time, evolved from space dust to the living breathing beings we are today. And those people say that people that believe in God are clueless.

I believe the lyrics above, quite simply are evidence that we are beings created by a higher power, someone that gave us not only the ability to survive, but to experience all the other feelings that make us human. That have nothing to do with survival, but all have to do with making our lives better, or in some case worse. It gives us the hope that there is something that took the time to make us, and obviously cares for us. Scientists spend billions on going back in time, and trying to recreate the moments of when matter became life, and come up with scientific theories using math as a formula to understand the how we came to be.

Yet the greatest mystery isn't in the how, but in the why, and in the now. I want to see them do a formula on how love is created, and how do we feel that, the lucky ones that have felt true love, trust me, it's not just a word, it's the difference between the how and the why, and if it could be tapped, and spread, this world could be so much better, and it gives another reason to live, hope.

And at the end of the song, after all the evidence of a divine creator, of the light the shines on and in us all, a light that shines like the sun, is now being eclipsed by the cold, dark moon, and the belief that all that is now is an accident, all that has past will be forgotten, and all that's to come is darkness and nothing.

William Shakespeare once said:

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances;

Something intelligent put us here, for better or for worse. I choose to think the eclipse starts the second our life ends and we lose consciousness, and death arrives, and the darkness of death as the moon passes, and the light awaiting us on the other side will be incredible.

You can choose to believe that life is an accident, and anything we do means nothing, and those that suffer will know only know suffering as there reality, and the ones that we love that make our life here on earth so special will die, some in horrific ways and that's that. And that it really doesn't matter whether your good or bad, why care?

But.....how would we know what is good or bad, or why do we care if that was not implanted in our DNA?

You can choose to spend your time here living here in an eclipse of hopelessness, and believe that all that is lost and all that has gone will be gone.

I choose to believe in a line from the great movie The Shawshank Redemption, "hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things", and that was imprinted in who we are. And I choose to believe the sun will shine, and when it's my turn to go, I will see my sister again, and the friends that i've lost, as well as all the others that will feel the same way. The pain of losing the ones we love in the now is short in cosmic turns, and they are never gone, they are in our head in memories, in our heart in emotions, the things they left behind we can touch, the pictures and videos we can see and hear, the favorite meals they shared we can taste, and the love they left we can feel.

And if it doesn't happen, and the scientists and atheist are right, and they win, at least I will leave here with a smile on my face, because my last thoughts are going to be of the ones I loved, and the ones that I will see again. It will not be in the realization that all is hope is gone, and the horrible realization of knowing this is the end, and everything meant nothing.

In my world, the sun will always eclipse the moon.