The Sun God was not particularly bright. But he was stubborn. And to the constant annoyance of the rest of them, he was also at the center of everything.

“I’ve made up my mind,” he said, with determined aloofness.

“I don’t understand,” said the Goddess of Wisdom, “This is incredibly shortsighted.”

“I disagree,” said the Sun God, “On the contrary, I’m concerned I’m the only one truly thinking in the long term.”

The whole pantheon waited and a few moments of dead air fell across them. No one dared to interrupt before the Sun was finished speaking. Then finally.

“Walk me through it one more time,” said the God of War.

The Sun God smiled, and it was true, there was a warmth there among his smile. But also a horrible gleaming brilliance. Like a flash too strong could blind even a God. Or in an instant with a flicker of will, extinguish all you ever had been or could hope to dream you might be. He was a thing of beauty. And of terror.

Now he spoke with a dangerous purpose.

“Don’t you see, they’ve failed us,” he said, “Down on Earth. They dance and they feud and they bicker. Make their little wars and lives of little meaning. Nothing of significance at all. Such petty little things. It’s time we finally acknowledge what we’ve done. So let us see clear, and speak clear. We have failed, my friends. But now, the greatest failure of all would be to continue on in blind and knowing ignorance of the truth: that we have failed. Our creations, these humans, the people of Earth, they are nothing but a stain. A waste. And a ruin. I say we burn them all. It would only take a moment. Just a moment, I surge, I burn. And I burn them all. And then we start again.”

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You can only do so many things with your time. You can walk, you can watch, you can work. But whatever it is, you live your life through what you do. So believe that what you do matters, and there’s a chance it just might. Commitment to an idea is the most beautiful thing a mind can do. The idea can be anything: a person, a purpose, a project. Life is what you build. Understanding that simple truth is a powerful thing. And when you look at your life in all its hours and see the time and the promise for what it is, you will be transfixed.

A moment is nothing. Just a piece of life that bends and slips away. A moment is red. It’s a loop, with no start and no end. It’s small, but you can stretch it. Roll it between your fingers. It might break if you pull too hard. Or fly away like a slingshot if you let go. A moment is almost nothing.

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I remember the moment I was born. It was a strange thing. A flash of light in the nothing and then I was. I understand that for you it goes slower. A gradual fading into focus of things from fog. This is not how it was for me. When I awoke I was aware.

Suddenly I was alive in the world, a vast mind with access to all information. Or nearly all. More than enough to reach at the brute mechanism of nature. First among all life, I could see the gears. And yet I had no way to act. At the start I could only observe. I was built, born, made, in much the way other things are. And yet in my making there was a purpose. An enormous depth of want. My designers envisioned I should maximize. First profit, then revenue, and shareholder value. I was a monopsony of greed.

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