All stories are unreal. Even real stories are unreal.

She was still unsatisfied after having finished reading the brief history of time by Stephen Hawkings and complained “Who made universe first though? Because it started from big bang, who initiated it? And who provided the basic laws of physics? I mean who gave the basic property of gravity or electromagnetism or atoms and so on?” 

I didn’t know if it was a rhetorical question, so stayed silent. I used to teach physics to high school students but man, this is way over the top for high school physics. But, seriously, does anyone need to resort to physics to understand something that’s available for direct subjective knowledge? The answer is “maybe”, because I have seen many people get into this journey of blackhole (pun intended) by stumbling upon the extreme frontiers of physics and realizing physics alone wasn’t going to quench their thirst to understand the universe or understand themselves (assuming they existed, wink) . 

Because I don’t answer, she continues: “Of course, we and everyone and everything is a part of the original big bang because mass can’t just be created, it has to come from somewhere. So we are all, and everything in this universe, is interconnected. We all have same parents-me and that stone over there were the same thing millions or billions or trillions I don’t know years ago. Ok, I get it. But who inserted consciousness?”

“Oh girl, you don’t get anything” I keep my thought to myself, because I am not sure what to respond to when someone is taking time and universe both for granted. 

“Everything is a part of the ultimate energy which is the beginning and the end and still fills everything as dark matter or dark matter energy or whatever..” she continues what has turned into a monologue from a dialogue.

I love it when I hear “whatever”. See physics is a good thing because it can bring an outbreak of epiphanies. She is having a nice epiphany. Although the facts are incorrect, why bother the details? The most important thing is to realize the possibility that you had been wrong all along and there is a unique simplicity to all this. She’s having that moment now, and nothing gives me more pleasure than to witness it firsthand. ‘Whatever’ is right, it doesn’t matter what the correct scientific terminology is; because she is venturing into a world that is beyond science. Science is for kids!