"listen, i had this weirdest dream!.. i died and i went to heaven"
"heaven? you sure? bcos people who wake someone up in the middle of the night to talk about their dreams.. usually end up in hell."
"im sure it wasn't hell. now, cut out the sarcasm and listen to me."
"ok, im sorry, go on.. did you meet God?"
"you bet i did. and i even got to ask him some questions."
"interesting.. so, what did you ask Him?"
"i asked Him a lot of questions and got all the usual, expected answers."
"like?"
"well, i asked him what was His purpose to create everything.. life, world, sun, universe, humans? and He said that He was experimenting and wanted to create an ultimate species -us humans- that would be His epitome of creativity."
"what about the rest? sun, universe and stuff?"
"..the rest were put in just for fun, i was told."
"ok, wow, so He was experimenting huh?"
"yeah, totally... and you know what? He also said that the entire world is being run by a huge computer. a giant server hosting everyone. and millions and millions of programs running.."
"that sounds very close to the version of that movie Matrix. your dream has been already made into a movie.."
"wait, there is more. i haven't told you that final question, for which i got a completely unpercedented answer."
"what is it?"
"i asked Him what was He thinking when He created love?..."
"and?"
"He said He didn't create it. He said it is a known bug!"
"a B-U-G?"
"yeah a bug in the software that is running the big server thingy. He was going to fix it up with a patch, but since everyone seemed to love "love" so much, He decided to leave it there!"
"haha... love "love"... kind of a recurssion in the code eh?"
"so that was it. i woke up after that and called you immediately."
"...love is a bug?? you sure?"
"YOU ARE QUESTIONING ME? YOU DO REALISE THAT I AM GOD."
"yeah, im sorry, my bad. now that you mention that it is a bug, it makes a lot of sense. even explains a lot of things..."
"GO FIGURE. AND SINCE EVERYONE LOVED "LOVE" SO MUCH, I DECIDED TO LEAVE IT AS IT IS."
"wow! Thank God for that. i mean.. thank you, God."
"BUT THERE IS A PATCH ONE COULD APPLY TO FIX THAT BUG. IT IS REALLY SIMPLE ACTUALLY. ONE SHOULD.......
".......and called you immediately."
"is there anything else interesting i should know?"
"no, but there is something i like to forget about this dream, because i found you!"
Labels: Dreams, Short Story
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