Imagine that you were on the treshold of a fairytale, sometimes billions of years ago when everything was created . And you were able to choose whether you wanted to be born to a life on this planet at some point. You wouldn't know when you were going to be born, nor how long you'd live for, but at any event it wouldn't be more than a few years. All you'd know was that, if you chose to come into the world at some point, you'd also have to leave it again one day and go away from everything. This might cause you a good deal of grief, as lots of people think that life in the great fairytale is so wonderful that the mere thought of it ending can bring tears to their eyes. Things can be so nice that it's terribly painful to think that at some point the days will run out.
Will you turn down the all offer? If you knew that something tasted fantastically good, would you still refuse a nibble if the piece you were being offered only weighed a milligramme?
From the Genius of Jostein Gaarder in his latest book: The orange girl.
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