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The perfect creation
THE PERFEC CREATION
Thirteen billion years ago the entire universe was the size of an egg. At some point there was an enormous explosion, and, little by little, the planets formed, the stars multiplied, and space expanded and expanded and expanded. The gods of the universe convened a meeting at the Great Council of Heaven in order to decide what to do with the little blue planet that they had named “Earth.” Filled with luscious lakes and oceans, fertile valleys, and the bluest of skies, the gods wanted to create a happy world. “How should we start the happy world,” asked one god.
“Maybe we should start with a red cardinal and a blue jay flying in the sky,” said another god.
“No we should start with the sea animals like big whales and angel fishes” said the God of the ocean.
“No the plants must be the first!” another one said
“What? They don´t even move, so boring living things”
Finally, the agreement between all gods was that they must create a perfect living thing. And they named this living thing: human. The human was created with great intelligence, the capacity of learning new things and the ability of create tools. But it was the first creation and the gods forgot that the humans don’t exist the same way as them. First, the humans were being asphyxiated because there was no oxygen in the air. The gods rapidly react and create the plants and the humanity was save for first time. Second, the humans started to be hungry so the gods create a great bowl with fruits so they could take them. Third, there were some indispensable nutrients that the humans must eat to be strong and the fruits didn’t have it, so the gods create all the other animals and allowed humans to hunt some of them to eat.
Then one god said “This humans, we always have to give them everything they can’t survive”
“They are the best creation, I bet they can survive” replied another one.
A discussion between gods started, so finally they reach a new agreement: they will test the humans. They will no longer provide them of food. So the gods talk with the human leader.
“Hey dude, we are going to have some vacations and so we are not going to be around here for a while, you think you will be ok?” said a god to the humans
“No problem, can you give us just another bowl of food?” said the humans’ leader
“Yes, no problem” and the god create another bowl of fruits “Well, we are going see you”. But the gods observe the human all the time. The humans eat a lot for a long time, but the food started to finish, also the new bowl. Another problem they got was that they cut trees to make houses and through time they started to got breathing problems. The humans started to get worry and some were very afraid about die of starvation or asphyxia. Some gods wanted to help them but they can’t break the agreement. But there was not everything lost, the humans develop agriculture and livestock and so they no longer suffer about hungry. They also plant new trees and the breathing problems went away.
The humans overpassed the test and the gods came back and there was a conversation with the human leader again just because the gods were very curious.
“Hello my old friend. We have more food than the two bowls can reach, you know?” said the human leader
“Hahaha, yes you are right, you have surprised us.
“Thank you, but I had a question” said the human leader
“Yes? Tell me about it”
“Well, why did you create us first?”
“We decided that the most perfect living thing must be the first”
“But you where very wrong, you know?”
“Really? Why?”
“We can’t live without this nature that surround us”
By Bernardo Bello & Karen Díaz
