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Selfishness: the clue to end all kind of relationships
After the Bing Bang was produced, the planet Earth was made. It had no living things; it had no purpose of existence until God had the idea of creating something different, something that could make the planet alive. God had a meeting with the Angels and Saints Council; they agreed to invent a living thing. After days and days of examining diverse options they chose to create the first pair of animals that was going to live in the world. They were a good sheep and a bad snake.
After one week they decided to put these two animals together in the world. God put the sheep in the forest and the snake in the jungle. -Oh my God! I have never seen something like this before, all these trees, all this food, all this water. It is awesome, said the sheep. –I am tired to be in this place, if I could find someone to talk to, or to tempt. Hahaha! said the snake. They were desperate, because they didn’t know anything. One day, after kilometers and kilometers, they ran into one point. They were surprised of seeing other animal. Of course they were so different, but they could distinguish between animals and plants. At the beginning they were friends, but after time passed they discovered that they had different way of thinking and they preferred to be alone.
God didn’t think that this could happen; he thought that they were going to be friends forever. After seeing the selfishness of the snake, God’s solution was to create other living being that could control the animals and make them understand that they should share, the human. The first action that the human did was to create a meeting to solve the animal problems. -I don’t want anybody to help me, I can do everything by my own, get out of here, said the snake. –I think that you could help us, said the sheep. But they couldn’t make an agreement because they had different interests and the snake left that place. The human gave up and decided not to help animals anymore. God exiled the human to be alone with his own race, the only contact that he could have with animals was using them for essential needs.
After many years, the human population was so big that they had to start eating other animals because fruits and vegetables weren’t enough. The man realized that meat had a better taste. The animals were scared because the humans were so many. The human started to hunt other animals and turned this necessity into a sport. Men were not killing animals for food, but for entertainment. Because of the lack of empathy of making hunting a sport, God got mad. He was disappointed of humans because they were supposed to help animals to deal with other animals. They should not kill them. God decided to give them a lesson, he invented a mortal illness. The virus was going to be in the first’s two animals of the world. One human got scared of the snake, he killed it. Two days later, other human killed the sheep because he wanted to eat it. God did not care, he kept his promise, even though these two men purposes were not bad. After these, two humans contracted the virus, it expanded all over the world until every living thing was dead.
