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What if, within our realm of reality, tiny incomprehensible particles compose all that we are and all that we have,

We are, our solar system that is, merely part and parcel of some hugely incomprehensible entity.

What if, for these millions of years in time, our true purpose has been a simplistic one.

What if, we have bustled with importance, amassed bodies of knowledge, subordinated some, adulated others,

scurried faster, ever faster towards the ultimate organization and civilization of our planet Earth,

Our precious speck which within the larger scope of things is - meaningless.

What if, what we have struggled for and on is something that - with or without us would exist/cease, improve/

end, change/stagnate,

What if, as one proton of one atom, as infinitesimally powerless,

We, in the scope of a larger reality, regardless of all striving, have no effect.

What if, as those individuals most alienated are largely ineffective, even the strong helpers among us, as a

collective - don't matter.

But what if, one solitary scurrier among us pauses on the mindless climb towards nowhere, stops to perform

one simple act of kindness for a subordinate entity.

Kindness pure and isolated, performed by one meaningless entity for another meaningless entity,

Uncompensated perhaps not remembered.

Then, what if the kindness itself assumes an identity,

Isolated and encapsulated in time.

Far in the distance or deep within it remains a dim reality,

Creating from a basic core of happiness in and of itself to make all the nothingness tolerable.

What if, before the manifestations of this speck's evolutionary process obliterate themselves,

The basic core reificates,

Will there then be something tangible,

A reified construct named kindness,

What if, instead of the nothingness,

This could be left behind...

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