Children are usually asked to write an essay on “What will you do if you were to become the President?” Or “What will you do if you are the Doctor?” These are simple and funny question which will elicit funnier answers. We are in this question not asking the student to become the president; we are in fact asking about his work as president. But my intention is completely different. I do not like the following question, but I have been told that this is a compulsory question and hence I must answer.
The question is: What will you do if you were God?
Firstly, I am not interested in becoming God. Being God is a stressful job. You will have to listen to everybody’s problems, and you will have to show some solution or the other. And till you show some solution – the people will criticize or bribe you. From a different angle, the position of God has lots of extra income…in fact the only income that a God can ever have is the ‘extra’ income from bribes. I wonder about the punishment if the God were to be caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB)! Hence I would never apply for the position of God! I cannot live without conscience… like the God! Many have to tried to persuade me to apply, but I was strong in my decision.
Having said the above and my profound dislike for being God, I may be allowed to state that if I were to become God, I would change the creation itself. I do not agree with the existing system of creation in every sphere. It is rotten and corrupted. In the existing system the God become a dictator. This God machinery system works either on bribes or on recommendations.
In my system of creation, everyone is born as an old man / old woman. We are simply born as old people. Unable to move, bed ridden and dependent on others for survival. At the time of birth, we will be so incapacitated that even going to the bath-room will be a Herculean task! Someone will have to put a pan under the ass, someone will have to wipe, grudgingly. At our birth the people around us will refuse to acknowledge us as human beings. They will ask “Oh God! When will they grow? How long will they take to grow?
At the very birth itself, we shall have a massive Indian paunch, soiled nails, wrinkled skin and eyes which cannot see. Next to the bed there will be a worn out dusted & rusted steel stool with ready to expire medicines. A steel glass without water, and it is impossible to guess when it had its last wash. A house-fly squatting on the glass. This is the birth – fragile and uncared.
As the days pass by the old new born will become slowly young. A year later he would be in a position to walk to the bathroom unassisted. If the man was in the ICU, he will walk out of it. The bald head begins show signs of hair growth. The person hitherto was on liquid food begins to have solid food! As the time marches forward, the age marches backward. The new born old man slowly becomes very young, attractive with thick black hair, no paunch, and eager to enjoy life!
As the age goes backwards, he becomes younger by the day. His working employment days, his marriage followed by his college days! Younger and younger and further younger! Soon he will vanish into thin air! His life ends when he becomes a sperm!
What is the end of this reverse creation? What do I plan to achieve? There are two types of Gods. Good Gods and Bad Gods. The present creation i.e., Birth to Death is the creation of a bad God. These Gods are bad and jealous gods. Their creation, as is existing today, will take us from heaven to hell & hell to purgatory. It takes us from birth to death. The crime of the children not taking care of the parents exist.
If I were to become God, I would rather become a good God, more responsible and loving god. The loving nature as a God will be evident from the fact that I am freeing the new born old from the clutches of their uncaring children. The new born old becomes younger by the day. At a later & younger stage in life, as a younger parent, he would look after his older children. The crime of the children not taking care of the parents does not exist. This good God will take you from hell to heaven where hell being with death & old age and heaven being youth & birth. This is the positive way I shall change creation, if I were God!
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional.
What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com
