Hello, my name is Daria Quinn, and I am a god. Not THE God, that's a bit more complicated. Basically, THE God is not so much a being as He is a concept, the idea that all there is, was, or ever could be is connected by a single, shared origin. And, to our knowledge of science and the cosmos, it's true. We all come from hydrogen and carbon and share a common lineage with stars and snails.
However, despite all of that, we are unique, because we know ourselves. We have a greater understanding of ourselves, and the cosmos than any other creature we have ever observed. We built homes, we invented machines, we discovered fire, and electricity, and magnetism and bent them to our will. We have powered our engines through sunlight, water, wind, and the fossilized remains of the dead centuries past. We have forged civilizations, founded nations, built churches and synagogues in tribute to powers beyond our comprehension, yet still managed to hold on to the curiosity of a child and seek out the answers to the questions we have only just learned to ask.
Our creativity makes us gods, whether it's expressed through art, machinery, science, philosophy, literature, athletics, mathematics – we have always looked at what is, and asked ourselves, what could be? What can be? What can we do different? What can we do better? Can this change, and will that change be for the better? And if not, why not, and let's see if we can change that, too.
We refuse, by virtue of our very existence, to be shackled to our limitations as we reach towards greatness. We are the culmination of billions upon billions of centuries of nuclear reactions, mutations, adaptations, diversifications and conceptions, and it is through us that the next great thing in this universe will come to pass, if not by our hands, by the hands of children's children's children.
If you are alive and you have a soul, a thought in your mind and the will to carry it out, you are a god.
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