Re-visiting the Unseen Brothers

My mind tends to wander at times. These are the situations I find myself with so many unanswered questions, some of which I cannot even dream of drawing anywhere close to a viable answer. This makes my world a mystic, at times getting overwhelmed, not knowing what is true and what is not, or what is real and what is not.

My wandering mind is on the rampage again. Am thinking hard but I don’t seem to get a proper answer as to why this friend of mine always buys a newspaper and the first stop is the obituaries page.

I am tempted to ask him but am not sure how he is going to react. If I was in the same situation and you demand an explanation, I would definitely feel embarrassed and probably retort, as a natural defense mechanism. For this reason, I opt to let my mind do what I cannot stop it from doing. Could my friend be desperately waiting for the demise of someone he had a vendetta with and hopes one fine day he would find him on the page of the deceased? Could he also be some low profile loony and this page has a different meaning to him from the rest of us? I finally find no answer and decide to leave my friend with his skewed ways alone. After all am not perfect either.

I revisit an earlier issue that has troubled me more than anything else. Compared to my mysterious friend, this becomes a puzzle, no one to ask, no where to read but just let my imagination drift. This time it takes me to dizzying heights, I feel like am falling and am afraid to think of them. A pang of fear suddenly engulfs me as I imagine myself being carried away by strange, human looking life form. I try to fight back but my body is numb and so weak I cannot even utter a single word. I look around but no one to help, or at least witness my disappearance. Finally, through a twist turn of events I am overly delighted to realize it was all in my mind.

However, it leaves me thinking about these people who are only rumored to exist, hoping they would forgive me for referring to them to as people. Am obliged to think they should have a name they identify themselves with. Personally I like calling them our unseen brothers but they are generally known as aliens.

I ask myself so many questions. Do they think like I do, with so much curiosity to discover my true identity as I would wish to unravel theirs?
I am mainly interested in their life.

Do some of them enjoy life while the rest majority of them languish in poverty, hunger, disease, war, and other problems we have the world? Do they have geographical zones and different races? Do some of their races discriminate against each other, or an alien is an alien. I would wish this for them.

Do they have countries and governments and how are their governments run? Are they political or power and leadership to them doesn’t ring a bell. If they do have them, are their leaders as corrupt as some of ours or things are so different such that they crave to have nothing for themselves and more for others and finally there is equitable distribution of wealth, as one gives and on the other hand he’s given?

Do they have schools or how do they acquire the vast knowledge we believe they possess? Could they be born geniuses? Probably, else I don’t see how they could so freely roam our environs without getting detected by our hi-tech surveillance equipments by our witty scientists.

Do they have a religion and a god? If yes, then their god must be very quick to answer prayers, or better still he himself runs the errands for his beloved creation upon their prayer. Could it also be their god is their president as well or whatever they call their leader?

How about recreational activities? What are their games or it’s them who coined the saying, too much play and no work makes jack a poor boy? Or their children’s games is what takes our most brilliant scientists years of hard labor in the lab trying to figure out?

As I continue to think about them, I simultaneously loath these peeps who make us appear like some yet to evolve sapiens and as well admire their prowess and aspire to be like them if not measure up to them.

Am now frustrated and worse than before having not gotten a clue!!!!