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RE: Story: The disintegration man
Excellent fiction, @adarshh! Assuming it is actually fiction, that is.
Reading that was a journey into the surreal! It was as if you were describing a real event from personal observation; not something for a child!
My question throughout was: what was your source of inspiration for the story? That must be a story in itself.
thank you @willymac. It is fiction. A long time ago, i had read many incidents of people disappearing. these people were usually normal most of the time but asininely abnormal at other times. i got to wondering about the compulsions that make us do what we do and the reactions of people around us. felt that it is time i gave it my own spin to explain the physical/moral/spiritual decay of a human being
"Odd" people do seem to often disappear under equally odd circumstances. My grandmother used to insist that "The Devil got him" when discussing disappearances and deserved punishments (one of her favorite topics). To her, everyone who disappeared had been taken because of something they had done that needed punishment. Good people never disappeared!
Your story had unexplainable forces reducing a human being to something unwordly at the point of transition into another state of being. None of it was explained and that was perfect because the unknown should remain unknown for it to retain its fear.
That was rather a nice work, @adarashh.
the human is more conscious than most about the metamorphosis of life. it is not really clear whether death follows life or vice versa. it is just that we have written so much about death that we think it is a natural occurrence. but we don't really know what it is until we ourselves are face to face with it.
what if life was never meant to be? i guess we will know the answer soon enough for our existence is anyway short term!
I think our lives would be less complicated if we had the ability accept death as a stage in our existence and not have to mourn and regret the passing of others. Even if life appeared spontaneously, all living things share part of our DNA in common. I have wondered if we all have souls through the same process.
We cannot know that, either, but I prefer to assume that all living things do have a form of soul. That does not cause me any internal moral conflict. Souls may come in different complexities and with different "strengths". Who knows what it is that makes us alive and aware? I certainly do not.
I do wonder, though: where is everyone else in the universe? I see no reason why we should be the only sentient beings or why there is anything special about our little niche in space or time. I keep hoping for good news from SETI, but nothing.....
With death, I will be what I was destined to be. Worrying about the mechanics will have little effect on the outcome. I have tried to leave other souls to their destiny at their own pace. Beyond that, I do not think I can do much to alter my position in the general increase of entropy.