Ah, but no matter. I will leave all of these questions to time and its new philosophers and logistical scholars. Right now I’m just happy that the second part of my life will be lived in a world so beautifully simplified and vividly youthful. I know there is no stopping progress, even with the collapse of what seemed to be everything. However, I now sleep soundly, knowing how many lifetimes it takes for even a power such as the earth itself to create black-gold from bleached bone. Also in having seen how few lifetimes it took to use up every drop those millions of years produced. So, I will never see another airplane the sky, or factory belting out Styrofoam and toxic smoke. I almost assuredly will never drive another car, see another state, or let alone take a ship across the ocean.

Whatever the case, I am here now, and that is all that matters. Who knew the end of the world would simply mean the beginning of a new, more vibrant one. I could have written it better of course, but that would have been simple fantasy, and no one would have believed it. So, look around you now, humans, at the planet earth. This is all an Eden now, and we can’t, here, in the end, go wrong.