Phoenix

One would sometimes wonder about the future or the parallel universes housing the ultimate sly fox, aka human beings. During one of my wondering sessions, I brought the idea of human beings living and dying like phoenixes to the tribunal. Imagine...if only we were like phoenixes and we would live for five hundred years, then burn to ashes and another self would arise from the ashes. How many would be able to finish the very first cycle? Will they all be like before? Like, if someone is a priest in the first five hundred years, would he remain one for the second and third too? Will the rich remain rich, the poor remain poor, and the universe remain unfair?

As the two sides of my brain were squabbling over the matter and squandering the time during which most people come up with superb achievements (such as preaching others to check out some curly-haired Targaryen prince's conventionally-concealed parts), I was vexed by the probable side effects of such a life. Living like phoenixes wouldn't be limited to Gandhis and Batmans, it would also include Hitlers, Stalins and the surprisingly long list of saboteurs throughout the history (though Dorian Gray and Lord Voldemort would be relieved, who needs seven Horcruxes or an aging-absorbant picture if you are going to rejuvenate anyway). The worst part is that scientists would probably come up with ways to avoid senility during all cycles, so that rich malignants can keep gallivanting and sipping chardoay without ever having to worry about the tarnished skin over their cadavers...as always, all under the name of science.

I wish it was in my control to keep my brain as reticent as possible, since sometimes your own thoughts do you no good, and if they did so many bodies weren't rotting under the headstones that suicide erected for them. I decided that we are better off living and dying as we do now, since this already ruined world could only hold evil phoenixes, and the poor and the weak will exeunt sooner or later. Mea culpa! Philanthropy was never my thing anyway.