Dear beating heart,

I wonder how the conversation will go when you ask me, “Where did I come from?” It’s been one of those questions that even I still ask to this day. Funny thing is, I know very few people willing to actually have that philosophical debate, yet it’s one of my favorite topics to talk about. One of these day, I’m going to take a walk with you into a lush, green forest and try to explain where plants come from, where the ground, the earth comes from. I read a lot of books and study a little bit of this and a bit of that… so sometimes I’m convinced if you ask me how our planet was formed, I might be able to tell you some of the main theories out there… but I must admit, I’m not prepared for those moments of confusion that may arise when I tell you that simply, at one point, the universe used to be… nothing.

It’s funny, I read an article in Parents magazine about the “birds and the bees” and rolled my eyes over some ridiculous metaphors in relation to where babies come from. Sometimes I assume our conversation may sound something like this:

“Mom, where do babies come from?”
“Well, honey, babies come from their parents.”
“Well where do parents come from then?”
“Parents come from their grandparents, dear.”
“Where do THEY come from?”
“They come from their great-grandparents.”
“But Mo-om… where do ALL the people come from?”
“They come from sex.”
“What is sex?”
“Someone’s gender.”
“Where does gender come from?”
“From their parents.”
“Where do their parents come from?”
“Their grandparents.”
“Mo-om, you’ve said that already.”
“When you ask the right questions, you’ll get the right answers.”
“Ok then. Before all the parents and grandparents, where did life come from?
“According to documentaries on the earth and astronomy, we came from a bug that happened to preserved within a crystallized element within a salt lake after two asteroids hit the earth and destroyed all life. Some scientists believe that bug was the beginning of all life form.”
“Well where did that bug come from? Where did life come from?”
“From time and space.”
“Well where did time come from? Where did space come from?”
“You can’t have time without space and you can’t have space without time, so they’re always together.”
“Oh….. why?”
“Take quantum mechanics and explain that one to me.”

Love
Mommy