It does not matter if you are a skeptic, or a believer, if you are a student of astronomy or of philosophical theology, something that you must accept is that all human beings are children of the planet Earth, and no matter how difficult it may be, the sun is that heavenly father, who every morning with his light, feeds the creatures that were birthed by the womb of Mother Earth.
Perhaps that is the reason why our ancestors looked at the God Sun with idolatry and sang prayers and made sacrifices to Mother Earth, the provider of all her children.
No matter how much we look to the sky and let our imaginations fly, we are tied to planet Earth. No matter how much we explore other worlds, our bones can only support the weight of the gravity of our planets, but only planet Earth contains in its atmosphere the proportion of oxygen that we all need to breathe, to live, to and dream of imaginary worlds that only exist in our minds.
But our planets also contain all the nutrients that nature can provide, which we need as human beings, because we are all children of planet Earth, and as children, we depend on what our mother offers us at every moment, because meeting the needs of her children is the mission of every mother.
So where does this desire to know other worlds come from? Where does that desire to break the cord that binds us to our mother come from? All of this is thanks to something that we all have, known as curiosity, or the desire to know. That internal need forces us to move beyond the horizon we know. All the things we know or are about to discover owe everything to that internal desire that we all have to learn, know and explore. The things we don’t know attract attention.
This internal impulse known as curiosity is something that is above ourselves, because it is an instinctive part of all living beings and drives us to explore the unknown, to look for answers to questions that we do not know, and to question and wonder. When we all look at the sky, we discover how big it is and everything we don’t know. All living beings on planet Earth have something in common: We are all part of the same place, even if we walk different paths. We are all children of the planet Earth.
A mother who makes no distinction between all of her children, loves them equally, feeds them equally, protects them equally and is subject to the same rules has no preferred children. We are all born, we grow, we reproduce and at the end of our days, we simply cease to exist and the nutrients in our bodies serve as food for those children of the planet Earth that preceded us. Planet Earth is not cruel, it is simply fair and treats everyone equally. Some anthropologists consider that the first monkeys that descended from the trees did not do so out of the need to look for food, they did so out of that internal desire to know, out of the curiosity to know what existed beyond the branches of the trees.
What so many wonderful and unimaginable things did planet Earth give and is giving to its children?
The planet Earth, mother of all of us, as a way of not limiting curiosity or that desire to know what exists, gave her children the ability to imagine, dream, and create worlds beyond the stars that we observe every night in a universe So wide, and each imaginary world that lives in our mind, which the children of Mother Earth will never be able to reach or touch with their fingers, feels the weight of gravity, the softness of the light, and the freshness of the air they breathe , because we are children of planet Earth.
This desire to know what we do not know is typical of all living beings, which includes human beings, creatures descended from those primates who dared to walk on two legs and raised their arms in a sign of freedom, because they began to imagine a world beyond a horizon that seems endless.
Reasons why they created mechanisms to move from one place to another, from one branch to another branch, from one tree to another tree, from one lagoon to another lagoon, which gave rise in the evolutionary term to what we all now know as fins, wings, feet and arms.
We are creatures biologically dependent on planet Earth, although spiritually we dream of imaginary worlds that only exist in our minds, no matter how much our imagination tells us otherwise. We are children of planet Earth, of a mother jealous of her children who wants to share it with other planets, no matter that they only exist in our minds.
We are creatures dependent on the natural environment that surrounds us and to which we are forced to adapt, which is one of the great rules imposed by Mother Earth. Nature has provided us with everything we need as one of the great gifts of Mother Earth.
When we look at the sky and count the stars in it, we also do so with the conviction that we are children of Planet Earth; to think otherwise is to create imaginary worlds that only exist in our minds.
Believing that there is an artificial world where human beings can live without the help of planet Earth—that is, being a protective mother, jealous of the destiny of your children—is ignoring the relationship that exists between a mother and her children.
The love of a mother for her children is forever, the love of children for her mother is unconditional and one of her conditions is that we will never abandon the planet, fulfilling the promise that children never abandon their mother.
Nature is the voice of a jealous mother who sometimes scolds us, reminding us of our place. That’s why she doesn’t give them everything, and she also doesn’t take everything away. That is why I always say that we are all children of planet Earth because we are tied to a mother who does not separate herself from her children.
No matter how many imaginary gods we build in our minds to ignore that reality, at the end of the day, Mother Earth accompanies us until our last breath. No matter how many gods we put in our hearts, the impulse of curiosity that forces us to explore will destroy them one by one, replacing them with a spiritual figure, which could be but is not, because mother earth does not accept competition.
How strong our curiosity or need to know will be will determine not only how much we will know about everything that surrounds us, but also how much we will know about ourselves as children of the earth, like a mother who does not separate herself from her children, no matter what. Let us be with her for a lifetime or for eternity.