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The Illusion of the World Remaining
Perhaps the end of the world is going on right now, but we’re too focused on the disasters to come than the beauty
“What happens if the world ends?”
“Maybe it already has… and this is it. Now we have the opportunity to start over and try to do better this time around.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson
What if the rainbow isn’t a promise to never again flood the world, wiping out humanity but instead, a promise to make the world more beautiful, lighting it with color after the skewed greys and blacks were too heavy to handle, darkening our eyes to the perception that the world is coming to an end, every morning and again, every evening. The light reflects a better future, and a reminder of nature’s lustrous life — quite the contrast from the darkness looming over our thoughts about what might ensue, should the end of the world begin to unravel before us, depleting us of energy and thus, vitality. But perhaps the rising and setting sun is just the prompt of such an end, painting a new picture every day, for the entire world to see, manifesting itself in a new form, a new light, a new perception.
Or perhaps the rainbow is indeed a promise to never again flood the world, wiping out humanity. So instead, the days are wiped out, cleaned fresh once we fall asleep, given…
