There
were two twins in a mother’s womb. After the conception, they looked at one
another and exclaimed happily, “It’s great to be alive!”
The twins
explored the world around them. When they discovered the umbilical cord, they
were excited:
“Our
mother’s love is so great! It’s fantastic that she shares her life with us!”
As days
went by, the twins started noticing that their bodies were changing.
“What
does it mean?” the first twin asked.
“It means
that our life in this world is coming to an end,” the second twin replied.
“But—but
I don’t want to leave this world. I want to stay here forever,” the first twin
said.
“We don’t
get to decide,” the second twin responded. “There might be a life after birth,
though.”
“How can
a life after birth be possible?! If we break the umbilical cord, the life
energy will stop feeding us! Moreover, no one has ever returned into the womb
again. No one has ever told us that there is a life after birth! It’s the end!”
The twin
was desperate.
“If
conception ends with birth, is there any meaning in our life in the womb? Life
has no meaning. Perhaps, there’s no mother at all!”
“There
must be the mother,” the other twin countered. “If she doesn’t exist, how did
we get here? What gives us life?”
“Have you
ever seen her?” the first twin argued. “She may exist only in our imagination.
We may have invented her to feel better!”
Their
last days in the womb were filled with worries and anxiety. Finally, it was
time for them to be born. The twins moved to the different world, and their
eyes were opened. They screamed from joy because the world they saw far
exceeded everything they’d expected.
Translated
by the Catalog of Good Deeds
CONVERSATION